All this nil made me think - I use the .Rhistory at the moment only when I
recall certain commands to continue a session, and my important stuff is
*always* in a script file. But for testing the scripts, I leave the code in
the .Rhistory and recall it from the last session (I start emacs and Rin a
project directory, so the .Rhistory is in the project directory.).
So a change in the default behavior, would be an inconvenience for me.

But on the other hand, it would force me to put the code in the scrip file
(I use org-mode, so I could nicely keep it separate from the rest) and have
it recallable (and understandable) even much later. So:

Based on laziness: do not change the default behavior
Based on organised code: please change it to nil - this would force me to
change my style of testing - very usefull probably.

And I could always change it back - so - please nil.

By the way: would it be possible to display a warning when starting ESS
(possibly only the first time?), that the default behavior has changed, and
a code snippet, how it could be changed back?
I know - a little bit Windows like, but it would help the "normal" user.

Cheers,

Rainer

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Henning Redestig <
henning.red@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I vote for nil as default.
>
> 2011/9/2 Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>:
> >
> >> Consequently, we think that it would make sense to have a
> >> *NON*-back compatible default of 'nil', i.e.,
> >
> > I vote for nil as the default.
> >
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