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26; `savehist-mode`: Make clear in the doc string that you can use it to save any variables

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26; `savehist-mode`: Make clear in the doc string that you can use it
 to save any variables
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:14:37 -0700 (PDT)

Option `savehist-additional-variables' should be mentioned in the doc
string.

By default `savehist-mode' saves only ordinary minibuffer histories, and
that's not the case for `command-history', for example.  Users have been
known to ask how to save the `M-x' history across sessions.

Beyond, `command-history', you can tell `savehist-mode' to persist any
variables.  That possibility should be mentioned in the doc, as its
scope is far beyond what `savehist-mode' does by default.

In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2018-05-30
Repository revision: 07f8f9bc5a51f5aa94eb099f3e15fbe0c20ea1ea
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.16299
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''

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