Re: ielm automatic saving of history -- bug 67000

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:33:59 +0530 (IST)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Madhu <enometh@meer.net>
> 
> *  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> <865xpsr3b0.fsf@gnu.org>
> >> The file written is identical to the file which was read.
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean.  AFAIU, IELM history records what
> > you typed, so what file was read here?
> 
> the ielm-history file from which the comint-input-ring is initalized

That's not what bothers me.  What bothers me is the way we save the
history of the ielm command the first time, when they are not taken
from a file, but from the user input.

> Here I am prompted with the coding system warning . If i go ahead and qchoose
> utf-8-unix, it goes ahead and saves it. I can compare 2.txt.binary and
> 2.txt.out to see that utf-8-unix has not resulted in any data loss.
> Hence all the claims in my previous message.

The data loss I had in mind is not in this case.