GNU bug report logs - #17155
24.3; ELPA files should not appear in recentf

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jonathan H <pythonnut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:45:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 17821

Found in version 24.3

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 17155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonathan H <pythonnut <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17155 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17155: 24.3; ELPA files should not appear in recentf
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 19:34:41 -0400

Jonathan H wrote:

> In Emacs, running an update from the list-packages buffer causes all of
> the files modified by package.el to show up in the recentf list. Because
> it is both bad form to edit files under package management and rarely
> done anyway, these files should not be listed.

I think this is because package.el uses `save-buffer'.

Unless it really needs to do that, I think it should use something more
low-level.
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