This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report which was filed against the emacs,w32 package: #5303: 23.1.91; Cannot load .emacs-history from savehist.el It has been closed by Eli Zaretskii . Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Eli Zaretskii by replying to this email. -- 5303: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5303 Emacs Bug Tracking System Contact bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org with problems