From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:33:42 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ; * etc/NEWS: Improve wording of savehist.el's entry.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-29.0.90~2296^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8931cca1356eb85c5ebcfc5956b39a04109bbd20;p=emacs.git

; * etc/NEWS: Improve wording of savehist.el's entry.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 1b4eaca00b5..1e1b574c7cb 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -514,9 +514,11 @@ to edit such sequences by allowing point to "enter" the sequence.
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.1
 
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-** 'savehist-additional-variables' can now specify variable lengths.
-Lists that are longer than the specified length will be truncated
-before saving.
+** 'savehist.el' can now truncate variables that are too long.
+An element of 'savehist-additional-variables' can now be of the form
+(VARIABLE . MAX-ELTS), which means to truncate the VARIABLE's value to
+at most MAX-ELTS elements (if the value is a list) before saving the
+value.
 
 ** Minibuffer and Completions