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 12:31:31 +0530 Message-ID: <f46c52560808190001w61cefab5q6c944c49affe07b4@mail.gmail.com> References: <f46c52560808180707p63f790exaec42443381f39ed@mail.gmail.com> <000001c90149$d557c7f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> 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 1219129323 7698 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 07:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 09:02:55 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 1KVLF0-0003cy-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:02:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLE3-0002bS-3s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLDj-0002XQ-9V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLDh-0002VH-KA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51361 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLDh-0002V6-Gt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:25156) 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 1KVLDg-0001RH-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <rustompmody@gmail.com>) id 1KVLDg-0002V0-5P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so2455581wfc.24 for <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:01:31 -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=oXIyAEbei6wtUerJOkUkm1VBPyA06iy2nDnJlgH/z4k=; b=iM5koo3c8DVy3SII9I6XB53Jf53M+ecRx31A9o/d6PX6FFLJ2ZeIsWLInLKZ5pdfnV 8RTY/CAjk4rBojyIpz4/E3dJqWfS9dKUGEpuxjXT2ftf09ZXx961C7gbZyQTtAE8xIPl GcMjHj36wbtocCYTf9QxBOiUW3Ut5MK/aKstw= 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=ZA9P0ExN1XO5w1n4gBEc/+5r+5ckg5x8Q+KliZtU4Wre0KCsn4+C+7X3TmwfWQl/xZ cOuvIkd6d0oBto2x6AgP9fn5F7sK/6m0kWvNPqLck+GgRb4Lo2DFgvtjre8WZxOYeILZ +3ZlSjHu9YPQHIDhG9R9zcZAVVFjl2FacvubQ= Original-Received: by 10.142.158.17 with SMTP id g17mr2394529wfe.17.1219129291128; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.156.11 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:01:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <000001c90149$d557c7f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> 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:56763 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/56763> Thanks Yeah Icicles is on my list of things to check out. I figured that it would have something related to this but I could not find it. I then tried filesets and the fileset-cache became some 4M (!!) so I guess I will try out icicles. What should I start by reading? On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote: >> I have been studying how to maintain recent files and am confused by >> the available functionality. >> >> recentf keeps recent files but not directories >> file cache is not persistent -- so not clear what its use is. >> >> So what is the recommended way of maintaining a readily available list >> of files and dirs? I guess there is filesets but I find that very >> hard to understand :-) > > Do you want (1) just recent files, or do you want to create and save (2) an > arbitrary set of files and directories that you can return to later? > > 1. For recent files, I use recentf. I use `icicle-recent-file', actually, which > lets you complete against parts of the file names. > > 2. You can use Icicles to create and save named sets of files and dirs for later > use. See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Persistent_Completions. > >