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I've a problem with recentf-mode buffer in emacs. Apart from the files I opened before, its also showing all the autoload files for various packages I've installed which is cluttering the Open recent buffer with unnecessary items. Like so :- 
How can I stop emacs from doing this?
Setting recentf-exclude may help you.
cf. https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3g468d/stop_recent_files_showing_elpa_packages/
emacs -Q. Otherwise it is difficult to guess what you might have done that causes the problem. – Drew Jul 20 '16 at 14:12emacs -Q(no init file). Whatever is needed to reproduce this should be part of the recipe, and extraneous stuff should not be part of it. And tell us just what you see the is different from what you expected to see. – Drew Jul 20 '16 at 18:00emacs -Q. 2. Opened the scratch buffer and evaluated '(recentf-mode 1)' to enable open recent files. 3. executed the commandrecentf-open-filesto launch the "Open Recent" buffer. I see the exact same result as shown in my first post. I'm confused now, are the autoloads.el files supposed to show up in the Open Recent buffer ? Is this how it works for everyone ? – Chakravarthy Raghunandan Jul 20 '16 at 19:07