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[PATCH] Strip text properties on recentf entries

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77140 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77140: [PATCH] Strip text properties on recentf entries
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:24:04 -0400

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Text properties are added by common completion frameworks, and serve no
>> >> purpose when stored in 'recentf-save-file', waste space, and slow
>> loading
>> >> the file.
>> >>
>> >> I did not add this to NEWS as I consider this non-user visible.  Happy
>> to
>> >> add this if the maintainers disagree.
>> >>
>> >> I've been running recentf with 'substring-no-properties' for ages and
>> >> others should benefit, by default.
>> >>
>> >> -Stephane
>> >>
>> >
>> > savehist already does this implicitly.  Perhaps it shouldn't even be
>> > optional as I made it (it was an easy change).
>>
>> I think we should do this unconditionally, as the point here is to
>> locate the file and nothing else.
>>
>> For the record, could you also provide details on which completion
>> frameworks that add text properties?  Do text properties cause any other
>> issues than wasted space?  It's enough to mention these detail here in
>> the bug report, I think, no need to add it to the commit message.
>>
>> No need for NEWS here, I agree.
>>
>
> Pretty much all completions, core and packages, that rely on metadata or
> apply faces, add text properties to completion candidates.  The variable
> 'minibuffer-allow-text-properties' can be bound to nil but if you read
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2025-02/msg00952.html you'll
> see there cases where it can't accomplish its claim.
>
> Revised patch attached.
>

Now with the bug number in the commit log...

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