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From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Moving from Ido to Icicles
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 21:07:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a94a634q.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141101074804.1fde2b3a@zothique> (message from Dale Snell on Sat, 1 Nov 2014 07:48:04 -0700)

Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
> I can't speak for Icicles, I've never used it.  Besides, that's Drew's
> job.  :-)  However, you might want to look into "recentf", which is a
> built-in package.  It keeps a list of the <n> most recently opened
> files.  The value of <n> defaults to sixteen, as I recall, but it
> can be changed.  When you access the list (from the menu bar or from C-x
> C-r) it presents you with that list.  You can then select the file
> you want to open.  I've found it quite handy.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.  I tend to use bookmarks with
short names, e.g. "TR", "L", etc. for the files I access most often.
That's not practical for something like a programming project.  For
cases like that you can bookmark the dired listing of the directory.  In
that case a good way to access what you want is to sort the dired buffer
by date.  I use Ido too, but I use bookmarks much more.

BR,
Robert Thorpe



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-01 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-01 10:22 Moving from Ido to Icicles Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-01 14:48 ` Dale Snell
2014-11-01 21:07   ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2014-11-01 23:35     ` Will O'Brien
2014-11-04  7:23       ` Drew Adams

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