Re: buffer for unopened file?

[Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> FYI, in Icicles:
>
> * You can save a buffer configuration (list of buffers etc.) persistently.
>
> * You can save a list of regions (in multiple buffers) persistently.
>
> * You can create a custom list of completion candidates (file names, buffer
> names, whatever), save that persistently, and reuse it later (for
> completion).
>
> * You can save a set of file-name candidates persistently, and later open
> Dired for just those files.
>
> All of those work with completion, including substring and regexp
> completion.
>
> Some Icicles links that might help here:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Candidate_Sets
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Persistent_Completions
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Multiple_Regions
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Search_Commands%2c_Overview

Icicles is fine but maybe a built-in feature of Emacs is good enough
for the beginning: Bookmarks.

C-x r m -- save current file as a bookmark
C-x r l -- list bookmarks (this is similar to C-x C-b)

and at some stage you should do "M-x bookmark-save".

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany