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 22:47:54 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87zlydtsw5.fsf@debby.local.net> References: <87d4v9viyc.fsf@debby.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192913145 8308 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 20:45:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:45:45 +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 22:45:45 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 1IjLCa-0006ib-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:45:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLCS-0004Uh-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLCA-0004TE-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLC9-0004Pc-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLC9-0004PB-0k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjLC7-00086o-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from debby.local.net (drms-590c744c.pool.einsundeins.de [89.12.116.76]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML31I-1IjLBx3P9i-0008K1; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:45:06 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IjLEh-0006Yx-0a; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:47:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sat\, 20 Oct 2007 10\:09\:51 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+hstlQ+km2lZpyk6XhnWLvLhRhbg7gUPuF+ZX BQiLCd88gmmrWhh27fDpX0LzbxlAACa2N61DAa4b20JU52F7ZZ LmSXX0HXoXZon0dEoaBZaGOd9LZssm1 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:48637 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". > > Yes, as I said, if you go to Emacs Wiki you will find lots of info about > ways to save and later access files. Bookmarking is one (good) way that is > discussed there. It's not clear exactly what the OP's use case is, and > whether Sebastian's suggestion or bookmarks or filecache or Icicles or > whatever will satisfy it. I suggest again that the OP take a look at the > possibilities mentioned on the wiki, to see which might correspond best to > his need. By the way, there was work on integrating Icicles into Emacs 23 proper. What is the current status, will it be included in the code base? -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany