Subject: Re: bug#67000: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add support for reading/writing IELM input history

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 12:17:28 -0800

Simen Heggestøyl <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> +(defvar ielm--history-file-name
>>> +  (locate-user-emacs-file "ielm-history.el")
>>
>> Shouldn't that be .eld?
>
> Hm, the file will contain actual Lisp expressions, so I'd think that .el
> is fitting?

I'm not so sure.  We don't really intend for users to use it the way
you'd expect from an .el file, like byte-compiling or loading it.

So while these are, hopefully, valid Lisp expressions (barring typos,
which frequently happens at a REPL), it's not really a file containing
meaningful code either.