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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Rustom Mody'" <rustompmody@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: caching recent files
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:48:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c90149$d557c7f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f46c52560808180707p63f790exaec42443381f39ed@mail.gmail.com>

> I have been studying how to maintain recent files and am confused by
> the available functionality.
> 
> recentf keeps recent files but not directories
> file cache is not persistent -- so not clear what its use is.
> 
> So what is the recommended way of maintaining a readily available list
> of files and dirs? I guess there is filesets but I find that very
> hard to understand :-)

Do you want (1) just recent files, or do you want to create and save (2) an
arbitrary set of files and directories that you can return to later?

1. For recent files, I use recentf. I use `icicle-recent-file', actually, which
lets you complete against parts of the file names.

2. You can use Icicles to create and save named sets of files and dirs for later
use. See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Persistent_Completions.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-18 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-18 14:07 caching recent files Rustom Mody
2008-08-18 15:48 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-08-19  7:01   ` Rustom Mody
2008-08-19 15:26     ` Drew Adams
2008-08-18 16:06 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-08-19  6:39   ` Rustom Mody

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