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27.0.50; Autoload generation during package installation pollutes recent-files list

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From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33563: 27.0.50; Autoload generation during package installation pollutes recent-files list
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 18:04:42 -0500

On 01/12/2018 15.19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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?

Indeed. Although wouldn't we want to let-bind it in autoload-find-generated-file, rather?
And, in that case, isn't it odd to have recentf-related code in autoload.el?

Clément.

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