From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recentf: abbreviate paths? tilde for home folder? Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:25:21 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123004611 13479 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2005 17:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 02 19:43:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00m1-0005ZN-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00oj-0002Y9-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:44:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E00f8-0000cd-DG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E00et-0000UF-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00es-0000Su-KM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E00kC-0006bo-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:40:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E00Wm-0003Yv-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:26:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:26:08 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:26:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:28358 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28358 Reiner Steib wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01 2005, David Reitter wrote: >>At least, I'd like to be able to replace my home folder with a tilde where >>possible. > > (defun rs-recentf-filename-handler (name) > (replace-regexp-in-string (concat "\\`" (expand-file-name "~")) "~" name)) > (setq recentf-filename-handler 'rs-recentf-filename-handler) Why not just (setq recentf-filename-handler 'abbreviate-file-name) -- Kevin Rodgers