On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> wrote:
Text properties are added by common completion frameworks, and serve no purpose when stored in 'recentf-save-file', waste space, and slow loading the file.

I did not add this to NEWS as I consider this non-user visible.  Happy to add this if the maintainers disagree.

I've been running recentf with 'substring-no-properties' for ages and others should benefit, by default.

-Stephane

savehist already does this implicitly.  Perhaps it shouldn't even be optional as I made it (it was an easy change).