Re: Emacs Improvement

[era@iki.fi]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:27:51 +0100, Arturo García Ares
<arturo@pikatoste.homeip.net> posted to bug-gnu-emacs:
 > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:44:14PM +0200, era@iki.fi wrote:
 >> > This is such a snippet:
 >> > (add-hook 'find-file-hooks
 >> >           (lambda ()
 >> >             (add-to-list 'file-name-history
 >> >                          (abbreviate-file-name (buffer-file-name)))))
 >> This modifies what happens when you M-x find-file within Emacs, not
 >> what happens with file name arguments passed in on the command line.
 >> Also it duplicates what Emacs already does by itself (you don't get
 >> duplicates on file-name-history because add-to-list won't add a file
 >> name which is there already).
 > File names passed as arguments to emacs are opened via find-file, so in
 > effect the above code adds those files to file-name-history.
 > Yes: duplicates are (intentionally) avoided by add-to-list, and it's
 > not optimal to let the hook execute for every visited file when it's
 > only required for non-interactive (by interactive I mean those opened
 > via C-x C-f) file opens. Nevertheless, it's harmless, except for the
 > extra cpu cycles. It's just a quick hack tu put in your .emacs, but it
 > does the job (have you tried it?)

Yes, I tried it, and it didn't work for me. But maybe my Emacs is too
old (or too new? :-)

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