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23.1.91; Cannot load .emacs-history from savehist.el

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Message #117 received at 5303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Michael Albinus'" <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>,
	"'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Eli Zaretskii' <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
	'Chong Yidong' <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Subject: RE: bug#5303: 23.1.91; Cannot load .emacs-history from savehist.el
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:32:03 -0800

> > maybe this is the right time to try to fix it?
> 
> Not during 23.2 pretest.

Dunno if you are speaking only of a _particular_ fix proposal or generally.

Obviously, speaking generally, this needs to be fixed before the 23.2 release,
since it is a _regression_. The problem never manifested itself previously
(Emacs 20 through 23.1 release), even if, as some have suggested, 23.1 perhaps
dodged a bullet.

AFAIK, the default location on Windows for files such as .emacs-history (for
savehist.el) is C:/ (or perhaps $HOME, defaulting to C:/). 

Other Windows users _will_ hit this bug. Some solution needs to be found now,
IMO.

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