Subject: Re: bug#57336: 29.0.50; Tramp and recentf yet again

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:02:44 -0700

miha--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

>
> Stephen Berman <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> With my current build from master, when my ~/emacs.d/recentf file
>> contains an entry that uses ssh to connect to another machine and this
>> machine is offline when I start Emacs, then Tramp repeatedly tries to
>> connect to that machine.  [...]
>
> I suspect that this is due to
>
> commit c753e4cb2a2a5998626d48d85071c047cbab6c54
> Author: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Thu Jun 23 11:00:19 2022 +0200
>
>     Use shortened filenames in recentf-mode
>
>     * lisp/recentf.el (recentf-filename-handlers): Set to
>     'abbreviate-file-name' to get shortened names by default.  (Bug#56123)
>
> 'abbreviate-file-name' tries to establish a connection for remote file
> names.

Hmm, maybe Michael knows what's going on here, added to Cc.