GNU bug report logs - #33563
27.0.50; Autoload generation during package installation pollutes recent-files list

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 19:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 33563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33563: 27.0.50; Autoload generation during package
 installation pollutes recent-files list
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:19:01 +0200

> Cc: 33563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 15:01:17 -0500
> 
> > Why can't you use the existing facilities in recentf to filter out
> > unwanted files from the list of recent files?
> 
> Is that possible?  As far as I can tell recentf only filters by file name.  That doesn't seem to be enough, since we do want to record some autoload files (those visited by users, but not those opened automatically by autoload.el).

You could let-bind recentf-exclude while installing packages, couldn't
you?
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