From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: buffer for unopened file? Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:39:39 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87d4v9viyc.fsf@debby.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192899702 3081 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 17:01:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:01:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 19:01:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IjHhj-0007Qh-St for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:01:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjHhc-00035H-H7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjHgt-0002Wq-9M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjHgq-0002TZ-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjHgp-0002TM-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjHKg-00065X-TH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from debby.local.net (drms-590c744c.pool.einsundeins.de [89.12.116.76]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKxQS-1IjHJj0Bmk-0002hQ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:36:51 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IjHMR-0005GP-RA; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:39:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 11\:20\:03 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18kYGBc8K/xJp/Shy5sT8fd/Igh6QIUJnBSP81 tEvrfSuihl0ceDtUKKIh8v/5oJt7MPKikynL7Ci1fk8nstnWCa J78KuXKcw4GSIP8SxvQ8hvbe10pqAIL X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48628 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" 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