add kill ring to savehist variables. #4422
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It was removed because of an issue on OSX that causes Emacs freezing. You should look at this PR as it links to the issue: #1843 |
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@tuhdo, I have never had an issue with this on Windows. If this is an os specific issue, shouldn't we just have an unless check for OSX since this seems to be a saner default? |
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If we do that, then there will be inconsistency and I'm not sure if @syl20bnr is ok with that. Large kill ring can also degrade startup time since it takes longer to load all the content. Probably it's doable by limiting history length to a very small size, by following this post's suggestion: http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/12116. But then, I think it's safer to let users decide it themselves on this to avoid potential problems. |
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I understand the position, but it seems there have been a lot of regressions in features because of isolated instances of issues in the code with the different platforms used. We have also disabled persistent |
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👍 for trying to make this work again. Who knows - it's been 6 months, maybe the OSX behavior is better now? 😄 |
We weren't saving the kill-ring between sessions.