From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: caching recent files Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:09:47 +0530 Message-ID: <f46c52560808182339q4162caak20e2e982c730afc8@mail.gmail.com> References: <f46c52560808180707p63f790exaec42443381f39ed@mail.gmail.com> <m2r68mi9ye.fsf@nschum.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219128027 4164 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 06:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: me@nschum.de To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 08:41:19 2008 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> 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 1KVKu3-0005z7-6j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37358 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVKt5-0003dU-Ha for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVKsh-0003dO-O5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVKsh-0003dC-Ap for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54409 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVKsh-0003d9-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:24112) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <rustompmody@gmail.com>) id 1KVKsg-0007QR-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.44.156]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <rustompmody@gmail.com>) id 1KVKsf-0000q1-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 34so1189730yxf.66 for <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:39:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Hal2KKlV7GknxZNvnIfY63yOfOZnODQsP2zxhSELRlk=; b=emhNLMl+PNNj6RFeBhHr0BUmRjeJwGY5G3YtsbEt8Udpjp3BoRUSX+nxnukVOQXqGy ijmxFB2b+8y4O2s+EjNdNbJM7zcisWQBGWxPspwXFPvk70tQ45sgAGnVgS1z3CyTrxBd mKtUEvOdNTM7u4duLfre9jOTQ1PG2d6Hx1R04= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=AIXwnIv3Pvu5pl+RplC6oHt50XF0kZOgY1HyQ0b+UKSsNLxNxXftJlUudXkqs7RTI7 XSAYohmbrd4w4uI5tFwLFPfEm9UR5DVhPaPOE2hYEjTvkG/mDWNJGpD9jfYiXDuPz/lh gUuYRcNkea4XYZYg1A4nENoOSpV7iPMwdjZVA= Original-Received: by 10.142.70.16 with SMTP id s16mr2390148wfa.120.1219127987998; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.156.11 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:39:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <m2r68mi9ye.fsf@nschum.de> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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 <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-emacs> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=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:56761 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/56761> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> wrote: > "Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote: > >> recentf [...] file cache is not persistent -- so not clear what its >> use is. > > It is supposed to be persistent. If `recentf-mode' is enabled, the list > will be written to `recentf-save-file' when emacs exits. Emacs info -> files -> file name cache (after all the functions) The file name cache is not persistent: it is kept and maintained only for the duration of the Emacs session. You can view the contents of the cache with the `file-cache-display' command. > >> So what is the recommended way of maintaining a readily available list >> of files and dirs? > > Do you mean directories you visited via dired, or all directories in > which you've opened files? Either/both! A 'project' is invariably associated with a directory. Any convenient way of telling emacs of such 'projects' is fine. > > > regards, > Nikolaj Schumacher >