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.
I’d like to save, for instance, my find-file and Meta-X history in Emacs’ mini-buffer
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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.
As Trey Jackson said, you want to put this:
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:You may also want to customize
savehist-file, to pick the location where Emacs saves all this stuff: