;;; savehist.el --- Save minibuffer history.
-;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
;; Keywords: minibuffer
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
-;; any later version.
+;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
-;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
-;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Commentary:
;; This should be capable of representing characters used by Emacs.
;; We prefer UTF-8 over ISO 2022 because it is well-known outside
-;; Mule. XEmacs prir to 21.5 had UTF-8 provided by an external
+;; Mule. XEmacs prior to 21.5 had UTF-8 provided by an external
;; package which may not be loaded, which is why we check for version.
(defvar savehist-coding-system (if (and (featurep 'xemacs)
(<= emacs-major-version 21)
(< emacs-minor-version 5))
- 'iso-2022-8 'utf-8)
+ 'iso-2022-8 'utf-8-unix)
"The coding system savehist uses for saving the minibuffer history.
Changing this value while Emacs is running is supported, but considered
unwise, unless you know what you are doing.")
(add-minor-mode 'savehist-mode "")
(defun savehist-load ()
- "Obsolete function provided for transition from old versions of savehist.
-Don't call this from new code, use (savehist-mode 1) instead.
-
-This function loads the variables stored in `savehist-file' and turns on
-`savehist-mode'. If `savehist-file' is in the old format that doesn't
-record the value of `savehist-minibuffer-history-variables', that value
-is deducted from the contents of the file."
+ "Load the variables stored in `savehist-file' and turn on `savehist-mode'.
+If `savehist-file' is in the old format that doesn't record
+the value of `savehist-minibuffer-history-variables', that
+value is deducted from the contents of the file."
(savehist-mode 1)
;; Old versions of savehist distributed with XEmacs didn't save
;; savehist-minibuffer-history-variables. If that variable is nil
;; Collect VAR, i.e. (nth form 1).
(push (nth 1 form) vars))
vars)))))
-(make-obsolete 'savehist-load 'savehist-mode)
+(make-obsolete 'savehist-load 'savehist-mode "22.1")
(defun savehist-install ()
"Hook savehist into Emacs.
(dolist (elt value)
(let ((start (point)))
(insert " ")
- (prin1 elt (current-buffer))
- ;; Try to read the element we just printed.
+ ;; Try to print and then to read an element.
(condition-case nil
- (save-excursion
- (goto-char start)
- (read (current-buffer)))
+ (progn
+ (prin1 elt (current-buffer))
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char start)
+ (read (current-buffer))))
(error
- ;; If reading it gets an error, comment it out.
+ ;; If writing or reading gave an error, comment it out.
(goto-char start)
(insert "\n")
(while (not (eobp))