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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#30943: save-hist creates massive cache file |
Date: | Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:12:51 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Save-hist doesn't truncate any variables except the ones it knows > about, because it cannot be sure that truncating some list might leave > the variable with an invalid value. savehist doesn't truncate anything AFAICS. It just assumes variables are trimmed by add-to-history etc in the course of normal operation. So if you add a non-history variable to savehist (or set history-length to t), it will eventually blow up.
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