bug#39638: 26.3; recentf-auto-cleanup deceptive

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:45:24 +0100
> Cc: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>, 39638@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I think you're talking about commit be9e7056daaf9112afc394fea96fe3fe67b26070.
> 
> That code is from David Ponce:
> 
> 2003-04-27  David Ponce  <david@dponce.com>
> 
>         * recentf.el
> 
>         Major rewrite.  The code is reordered, cleaner and faster.
>         Introduce new options to automatically cleanup the recent list,
>         and to handle filename transformation (for example to use true
>         filenames).

Oops, sorry.  Right you are.

David, would you please answer my question (and in general comment on
the proposed changes)?