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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: recent files question
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:26:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk6b4shdp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141854380.061676.71460@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (markscottwright@gmail.com)

> From: markscottwright@gmail.com
> Date: 8 Mar 2006 13:46:20 -0800
> 
> I'm a emacs newbie, and I'm having some trouble with the recent files
> extention.  I've got the following in my init.el (I'm using xemacs).
> 
> (require 'recent-files)
> (recent-files-initialize)
> 
> I can see the recent files list while I am in emacs, and it contains
> the list of files that I am working with.  But if I leave and re-enter
> emacs, the list is empty.
> 
> The recent-files-save-file entry is c:\Documents and
> Settings\wrightm\My Documents\.recent-files.el.  It doesn't exist.

My crystal ball says that you used backslashes in that file name, and
didn't double every backslash.  Either double them, or use forward
slashes instead.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-08 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-08 21:46 recent files question markscottwright
2006-03-08 22:20 ` Peter Tury
2006-03-08 22:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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