GNU bug report logs - #77140
[PATCH] Strip text properties on recentf entries

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: 77140 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77140: [PATCH] Strip text properties on recentf entries
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:10:56 -0400

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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).

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