bug#5303: 23.1.91; Cannot load .emacs-history from savehist.el

[Drew Adams]

> > Obviously, speaking generally, this needs to be fixed 
> > before the 23.2 release, since it is a _regression_.
> >
> > The problem never manifested itself previously
> > (Emacs 20 through 23.1 release), even if, as some have 
> > suggested, 23.1 perhaps dodged a bullet.
> 
> On my colleague's PC, I could reproduce the problem with
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2009-01-15 on LENNART-69DE564
> 
> It doesn't seem to be a regression wrt Emacs 23.1, at least.

I cannot reproduce the problem using the 23.1 _release_.
So it is a regression wrt what we have actually released to users, AFAICT.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'