From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recent files question Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:26:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1141854380.061676.71460@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142017120 13706 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2006 18:58:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 10 19:58:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHmoa-0006lg-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:58:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHmoa-0007Yx-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:58:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FH76e-0006YK-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:26:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FH76c-0006IM-FT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FH76c-0006Hh-8g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FH79X-000651-SS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:29:08 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-165-116.inter.net.il [84.228.165.116]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DSD59557 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 00:26:04 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <1141854380.061676.71460@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (markscottwright@gmail.com) 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-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:33693 Archived-At: > 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.