Subject: bug#36550: Small bug fix in recentf.el

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 21:58:46 +0200

Linus Källberg <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> In recentf.el (GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 
> 2018-05-30), I made the following small change on line 1187 (in the 
> function recentf-open-files-item):
>
> -           :format "%[%t\n%]"
> +           :format "%[%t%]\n"

(In the future, could you post complete patches instead of fragments?
That makes it easier to find the code in question.)

> This fixes the highlighting when hovering the mouse over a file in the 
> recent files dialog. Before, the file name, as well as the rest of the 
> line and the first character on the next line, was highlighted. Now only 
> the file name is highlighted, which looks much nicer and is probably 
> what is intended.

The commit message for that line seems to indicate that it's on purpose:

commit 5d24c60e3a3b07ccb31b886885ea117a058168be
Author: David Ponce <[email-masked]>
Date:   Mon Apr 3 14:34:28 2006 +0000

    (recentf-open-files-item): Include newline in button
    field, so opening a file will work, when the point is at the end
    of the file name.  Allow, for example, to [i]search a file by
    extension and just push RET to open it.

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