GNU bug report logs - #36780
26.1; request: savehist should also save log-edit-comment-ring by default

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: emacsuser <at> freemail.hu, 36780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36780: 26.1; request:  savehist should also save log-edit-comment-ring by default
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:36:51 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I don't see why the solution of customizing
> savehist-additional-variables by the user is not the right one.  After
> all, we are not talking about minibuffer history here.
>
> The savehist package defines itself as being for "saving the
> minibuffer history".

Oh, I thought it was a more general facility.  In that case, I'm closing
this bug report.

> What you suggest makes it a much more general facility, and we then
> would need to review many other variables and decide whether they are
> candidates for saving (some of them are already saved by separate
> features).  Maybe we should do that, but that's a much broader issue
> than this particular bug report.

Yup.

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