Re: recentf improvement

[David PONCE]

Hi Richard,

>     Finally, I don't see the point of calling `abbreviate-file-name' on
>     every recent file before copying them to file-name-history?
> 
> That is so the names in the history will be more concise.
> I think this is desirable, so I think you should put that call
> back in.

OK, here is a new patch.

David

Index: lisp/recentf.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/recentf.el,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -c -r1.27 recentf.el
*** lisp/recentf.el     15 Sep 2003 16:24:35 -0000      1.27
--- lisp/recentf.el     22 Sep 2003 06:52:58 -0000
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*** 240,245 ****
--- 240,251 ----
             ;; Unavailable until recentf has been loaded.
             (recentf-auto-cleanup))))
  
+ (defcustom recentf-initialize-file-name-history t
+   "*non-nil means to initialize `file-name-history' with the recent list.
+ If `file-name-history' is not empty, do nothing."
+   :group 'recentf
+   :type  'boolean)
+ 
  (defcustom recentf-load-hook nil
     "*Normal hook run at end of loading the `recentf' package."
    :group 'recentf
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*** 1143,1153 ****
  
  (defun recentf-load-list ()
    "Load a previously saved recent list.
! Read data from the file specified by `recentf-save-file'."
    (interactive)
    (let ((file (expand-file-name recentf-save-file)))
      (when (file-readable-p file)
!       (load-file file))))
  
  (defun recentf-cleanup ()
    "Remove all excluded or non-readable files from the recent list."
--- 1149,1165 ----
  
  (defun recentf-load-list ()
    "Load a previously saved recent list.
! Read data from the file specified by `recentf-save-file'.
! When `recentf-initialize-file-name-history' is non-nil, initialize an
! empty `file-name-history' with the recent list."
    (interactive)
    (let ((file (expand-file-name recentf-save-file)))
      (when (file-readable-p file)
!       (load-file file)
!       (and recentf-initialize-file-name-history
!            (not file-name-history)
!            (setq file-name-history (mapcar 'abbreviate-file-name
!                                            recentf-list))))))
  
  (defun recentf-cleanup ()
    "Remove all excluded or non-readable files from the recent list."