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

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Message #24 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 39638 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, David Ponce <david <at> dponce.com>,
 Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
Subject: Re: bug#39638: 26.3; recentf-auto-cleanup deceptive
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 01:18:41 +0000

close 39638 28.1
thanks

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

> 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.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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