Hiding certain directories in the recentf list [duplicate]

Question

After every OCaml programming session, my recentf list is polluted with directories such as

/private/var/folders/jn/l00kvy6n15s3slnk5khz1gh00000gn/T/ocamlformatbldUeV.ml
/private/var/folders/jn/l00kvy6n15s3slnk5khz1gh00000gn/T/ocamlformatpSSLHo.ml

generated by ocamlformat. I want these to be hidden from the list, by blacklisting /private/var/folders/.

How can I achieve this? I have looked up functions starting with recentf-, but recentf seems to not provide any functions to do this.

Answer 1

Evaluate :

(add-to-list 'recentf-exclude "/private/var/folders/.*") 

To activate it permanently, save it in your init file (.emacs or .emacs.d/init.el).