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Keep the minibuffer's memory

Keep minibuffer history between Emacs sessions.

built-in / history / minibuffer

Savehist remembers minibuffer histories across sessions. Commands, search terms, and other entries are easier to recall with M-p instead of typing them again.

The library is named savehist, not save-hist. It is built in, so no package installation is needed.

History is written locally to savehist-file. Treat that file as personal data: do not commit it or add sensitive histories such as credentials.

(use-package savehist
  :ensure nil
  :init (savehist-mode 1))

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