Re: recentf-mode works 'by hand' but not if started from .emacs

[Greg Bognar <greg.bognar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:44:14 -0500, Roland Rau wrote:

> Greg Bognar wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:41:00 -0500, Roland Rau wrote:
>> 
>>> Greg Bognar wrote:
>>>> I have this:
>>>>
>>>> (recentf-mode 1)
>>>> (setq recentf-save-file "~/.Emacs/.recentfiles"
>>>>       recentf-max-menu-items 18
>>>>       recentf-menu-filter 'recentf-show-basenames-ascending)
>>>> (load recentf-save-file)
>>>>
>> Why do you want to bind it to any key?  You should just put the code in
>> your .emacs, and use the submenu of the file menu to open recent files.
>> Does that work?
> 
> When I included the aforementioned code snipped in my .emacs file, I had
> the same behavior again as I had in my initial post. So I decided to map
> it to one key and then, surprisingly, everything works...

Do you have the file that holds the list of recent files, that is,
~/.Emacs/.recentfiles (or whatever you set that variable or, if you don't
set it, ~/.recentf, which I think is that default)?  Have you modified the
menus?  What happens if you run Emacs with an ~/.emacs which only
contains the line (recentf-mode 1)?  Do you get the submenu in the File
menu?