Re: savehist-mode: invalid-read-syntax "#"

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jan 04 2006, David Kastrup wrote:

> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Alas, from time to time `savehist-mode' saves entries containing "#"
>>
>> Perhaps Emacs should provide a general purpose function (like
>> `desktop-value-to-string') to print Lisp-readable expressions.
>
> You can't make buffers, windows, overlays, yes even markers
> "Lisp-readable".  

Mentioning "markers" reminds me of another failure when reading the
history file.  I had the following entry in ~/.emacs.d/history (I
didn't C&P in which variable it was) after editing entries in my BBDB:

(bbdb-insert-new-field '["J..." "H..." ("J H...") nil
 (["Home" "NNNNN/NNNNN"] ["Office" "NNNNN/NNNNNN"] ["Mobile" "0"])
 (["Home" ("...weg N") "...." "" "NNNNN" ""])
 ("address@hidden" "address@hidden")
 ((gnokii . "t") (birthday . "NNNN-NN-NN")
  (www . "http://www.invalid.invalid/";) (category . "...")
  (creation-date . "NNNN-NN-NN") (timestamp . "NNNN-NN-NN")) 
 ["J... H..." nil #<marker at 22775 in rs.bbdb> nil]]
 'phone '["Mobile" "0"])

> They are just not restorable by the Lisp reader and so one should
> find out what causes them to be in the history in the first place.

AFAICS, it's the following code...

(defun savehist-install ()
  "Hook savehist into Emacs.
Normally invoked by calling `savehist-mode' to set the minor mode.
Installs `savehist-autosave' in `kill-emacs-hook' and on a timer.   To
undo this, call `savehist-uninstall'."
  (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'savehist-minibuffer-hook)
[...]

(defun savehist-minibuffer-hook ()
  ;; XEmacs sets minibuffer-history-variable to t to mean "no history
  ;; is being recorded".
  (unless (eq minibuffer-history-variable t)
    (add-to-list 'savehist-minibuffer-history-variables
                 minibuffer-history-variable)))

Maybe there should be a list (say `savehist-ignores-variables') which
should contain `command-history' (and maybe other variables).

Bye, Reiner.
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