From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: caching recent files Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:06:49 +0200 Message-ID: <m2r68mi9ye.fsf@nschum.de> References: <f46c52560808180707p63f790exaec42443381f39ed@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219162098 23998 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 16:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 18:09:10 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 1KVTlX-0004BF-Mr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVTka-0007pL-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KV7Fs-000608-88 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KV7Fr-0005zS-NW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49536 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KV7Fr-0005zP-Ix for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:34899) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <me@nschum.de>) id 1KV7Fr-0002Zv-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAH3784.bah.pppool.de [77.135.55.132]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C994F182CF13A; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:06:54 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <f46c52560808180707p63f790exaec42443381f39ed@mail.gmail.com> (Rustom Mody's message of "Mon\, 18 Aug 2008 19\:37\:24 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:01:14 -0400 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:56783 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/56783> "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. > 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? regards, Nikolaj Schumacher