An even newer update of this package is now available: http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/savehist.el New features: * Autodetection of minibuffer history variables. The minibuffer history vars no longer need to be enumerated, they are discovered from within minibuffer-setup-hook. Implemented by Stefan Monnier. * Ability to explicitly install/uninstall the savehist hooks. * Uses an MD5 checksum to verify whether the file has changed since last save. This is important because of the autosaving feature. Unfortunately this release is not backward-compatible with the old savehist. The differences are: - what used to be called savehist-history-variables is now split in two parts: savehist-save-minibuffer-history, a boolean that controls whether minibuffer histories are saved, and savehist-additional-variables, a list of *additional* variables to save. - because of the new mechanism for autodetection of minibuffer history variables, the old minibuffer histories will not be recognized as histories unless used at least once before leaving XEmacs. To avoid this, you can use something like: (setq savehist-minibuffer-history-variables (with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents savehist-file) (let ((vars ()) form) (while (setq form (condition-case nil (read (current-buffer)) (error nil))) (push (nth 1 form) vars)) vars))) I'm not sure if there is a good way to do this automatically. Please let me know if/when this is installed in the packages.

- because of the new mechanism for autodetection of minibuffer history variables, the old minibuffer histories will not be recognized as histories unless used at least once before leaving XEmacs. To avoid this, you can use something like: [...]