Customizing recentf-save-file doesn't work properly

[Luc Van Eycken]

When customizing both recentf-mode and recentf-save-file, the customized
value of recentf-save-file is not used for loading the list of recent files.

The bug can be repeated with the following scenario (delete any occurence
of ~/.custom-test.el and ~/.recentf first):
  * start emacs with "emacs -Q"
  * M-: (setq custom-file "~/.custom-test.el")
  * customize option recentf-mode to "on" and save for future sessions
  * customize option recentf-save-file to "~/.emacs.d/recentf" and save
    for future sessions
  * find a file (any file will do, e.g., "~/.emacs")
  * exit emacs
  * start emacs with "emacs -Q"
  * M-: (load "~/.custom-test.el")
  * look in the menu File > Open Recent and notice that No files are found

Work-around I use at this moment
  * after loading the custom-file, manually reload the list
    M-x recentf-load-list
    and you'll find the files which were visited in the previous session
    again on the File > Open Recent menu

Possible explanation:
  In .custom-test.el options are saved in alphabetic order, so recentf-mode
  is enabled and the list is loaded before the customized value of
  recentf-save-file takes effect, so it uses the default .recentf instead
  of the customized value.

Note: this bug is not present Emacs 21.4.

Best regards,

Luc Van Eycken


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2005-08-04 on THAMMUZ
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  recentf-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol

Recent input:
M-: ( l o a d SPC " ~ / . c u s t o m - t e s t . e 
l " ) <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> M-x r e c e n t f - l o <tab> 
<return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-b
ug>

Recent messages:
Loading tool-bar...done
Loading image...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading ~/.custom-test.el (source)...
Loading recentf...done
Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
Loading ~/.custom-test.el (source)...done
t
Loading c:/veycken/.emacs.d/recentf...done
Loading emacsbug...done