Re: Turning on savehist-mode by default

[Adam Porter]

On 12/17/23 01:49, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> > 0: https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el/issues/216
>
> Did you think about how issues like the above could be solved (in
> general, not necessarily in savehist specifically)?

It doesn't seem like an easy problem.  My guess as to the most "correct" 
solution would be to limit how much time can be spent serializing the 
data, both as a whole and individual elements, and to cancel or 
interrupt the serialization of the whole or a part if the limit is 
exceeded--the goal being to avoid UI pauses.  Then the limit could be 
disabled when desired (e.g. when exiting Emacs, wanting to be sure the 
data is saved).  But doing that would require some bookkeeping in the 
background, which seems like it might be excessive complexity for what 
should be a simple feature.