Severity: wishlist I just pushed commit 32906819ad to master, which adds 'recentf-show-abbreviated' as a possible value for 'recentf-menu-filter'. This basically just makes the menu use e.g. "~/foo" instead of "/home/skangas/foo". I think this would be a strictly better default than what we have now, so I suggest we change it. I'm happy to flip the switch and update the NEWS entry accordingly. Please see the attached before/after screenshots.