projectile-recentf returns empty list when project was not picked about projectile HOT 4 CLOSED

I think this is because the projectile-ensure-project, if project is active, returns a directory after calling file-truename. If the project is prompted no such operation takes place. With this change it works correctly:

diff --git c/projectile.el w/projectile.el
index d422632..1c6a7f1 100644
--- c/projectile.el
+++ w/projectile.el
@@ -1350,8 +1350,8 @@ See also `projectile-acquire-root'."
   (if dir
       dir
     (cond
-     ((eq projectile-require-project-root 'prompt) (projectile-completing-read
-                                                    "Switch to project: " projectile-known-projects))
+     ((eq projectile-require-project-root 'prompt) (file-truename (projectile-completing-read
+                                                                   "Switch to project: " projectile-known-projects)))
      (projectile-require-project-root (error "Projectile cannot find a project definition in %s" default-directory))
      (t default-directory))))

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Hmm, I'm slightly puzzled by this, as I'm not sure why the true name would matter would matter here, as the paths in projectile-known-projects are absolute as well. Can you share more details about the project that's causing this issue for you?

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It's every project that's in home directory (or subdirectory). projectile-known-projects keeps projects with ~/ prefix, but inside projectile-recentf-files there's a call to expand-file-name which changes ~/ to /home/user which then fails the comparison with string-prefix-p.

You can evaluate projectile-acquire-root inside any project and it should return expanded (with /home/user) path but if you do that inside non-project buffer (like scratch) and pick any project when prompted, it will return a path with ~/. This small difference is what causes the projectile-recentf to return empty file list when called outside of any project.

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I see what you mean. It seems to me it'd be best to add an expand-file-name to the usage of the project-root in projectile-recentf. PR welcome!

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