From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 37772@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37772: 26.3; Doc of recentf, particularly `recentf-list'
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:41:09 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15372348-a7e5-4b90-b8ab-bee94a484b55@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e54m6je.fsf@gnus.org>
> > Many users use recentf. Likewise, libraries. Nowhere is it said
> > what order the files are listed in, i.e., the order of the elements of
> > `recentf-list'. The answer is apparently that, by default at least,
> > a file is pushed to the front of the list when it is "opened" or
> > written.
> >
> > A more exact answer is that `recentf-list' is in reverse
> > chronological order of calls to `recentf-track-opened-file'.
> > And by default that function is added to these hooks:
> > `find-file-hook' and `write-file-functions'.
>
> I think that seems pretty self-evident -- the doc strings talk about
> "most recent" etc, so what other ordering could be meant?
It's not obvious at all. That the 30 most recently
opened files are listed says _nothing_ about the
order in which they're listed.
And nothing is said about the situations when (by
default) the list (`recentf-list') is updated.
The answer is in the hooks. It's not about
re-selecting the window of a file buffer or
changing a file outside Emacs, for instance.
(Not by default, at least.)
> So I don't see anything to fix here and I'm closing this bug report.
Unfortunate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-17 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-15 22:45 bug#37772: 26.3; Doc of recentf, particularly `recentf-list' Drew Adams
2019-10-17 2:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-17 15:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-10-17 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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