Ship Mints <rewrite-shipmints==gmail.com> writes:

> I'll patch saveplace in harmony with savehist and leave recentf up to you and the OP.

Okay, I actually had a look at savehist, and it quite makes sense.

I am attaching a new patch, with the following contents:
(write-region (point-min) (point-max) (expand-file-name recentf-save-file) nil
   (unless (or (called-interactively-p 'interactive) recentf-show-messages) 'quiet)))

This is almost like what savehist does, but with an additional check for
explicitly enabling messages for people who are I/O bound and want to
save recentf rarely.