GNU bug report logs - #39638
26.3; recentf-auto-cleanup deceptive

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
Cc: David Ponce <david <at> dponce.com>, 39638 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39638: 26.3; recentf-auto-cleanup deceptive
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:55:11 +0200

Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe> writes:

> 1. When setting recentf-auto-cleanup to a string, the timer does not
> repeat.  It is only set once.  This is in contrast to midnight-mode,
> which repeats its timer every day.  The documentation for
> recentf-auto-cleanup does not make this clear, and I'm not even sure if
> this was the intended behavior.

I think repeating the action makes a whole lot more sense, and since
the action wasn't spelled out before (and no response from the person
who originally committed the code), I've applied your patch to Emacs 28. 

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