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How can I save my mini-buffer history in Emacs?

I'd like to save, for instance, my find-file and Meta-X history in Emacs' mini-buffer so I can recall commands later in a different session.

Solution

  • As Trey Jackson said, you want to put this:

    (savehist-mode)

    in your Emacs start up file, then restart Emacs. (Calling it interactively will stomp on your current mini-buffer history, so you may not want to do that.)

    It's also worth pointing out that you can persist other variables across sessions by adding them to savehist-additional-variables, like so:

    (setq savehist-additional-variables '(kill-ring search-ring regexp-search-ring))

    You may also want to customize savehist-file, to pick the location where Emacs saves all this stuff:

    (setq savehist-file "~/.emacs.d/tmp/savehist")