Comments on: Find files faster with the recent files package

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:19:44 +0000

Is there a way to make it so the list of recent files does NOT show the filepath, but just the filename itself?

By: iceman

iceman — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:20:11 +0000

i think i didn’t need the ido-recentf-open,because ido will do this,when i typing some filename under very deep directory,ido will auto match it,if i have recently open that file?isn’t this a convetion?

By: Paul Rodriguez

Paul Rodriguez — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:22:43 +0000

I used to use a similar Ido-based solution:

(find-file-existing
(ido-completing-read
“Recent file: ”
(mapcar ‘abbreviate-file-name recentf-list)
nil t))

But now I just use `recentf-open-files’, which is even more convenient.

By: Dan McGuirk

Dan McGuirk — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:19:54 +0000

There is something in ido-mode that does something similar already. Press C-x C-f, type the file name (even though you’re in the wrong directory), wait a second and it pops up the correct directory (it has its own cache separate from recentf).

Of course, this version might still work better.

By: mickey

mickey — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:10:10 +0000

Ahh, yes. Excellent observation. I suppose I should point that out. I do recommend you read my article Introduction to Ido Mode. I think you’ll find it useful.

By: visitor

visitor — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:08:55 +0000

There is yet another approach which provides normal file opening while oferring completions from the recentf list at the same time:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PushyCompletion

By: rcy

rcy — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:37:05 +0000

This is Great. Thanks.

One thing. I have ignored ido mode for a long time, being happy with my trusty iswitchb-mode. I pasted your code above into my .emacs, evalled, and hit C-x C-r. Completion did not work. I needed to hit C-] to escape from the minibuffer.

Adding (ido-mode t) to my .emacs solved the problem.

Just wanted to point that out, in case other users not (yet) using ido try your snippet.

Cheers,
rcy

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:39:05 +0000

I prefer ido-completing-read by a long shot as the fuzzy-matching and filter-as-you-type completion makes finding things a lot easier.

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:38:32 +0000

Yeah, bookmarks are great but the beauty of recentf is that files I use often are naturally pushed to the top of my 50-item list of recent files, whereas the ones I use frequently (or not at all) after a while will slowly drop off the list. I’ve found that by the time a file drops off the list I’m probably not using it often enough to warrant a “shortcut.”

-Mickey.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:57:04 +0000

@tom and there’s some code on emacswiki to make bookmarks usable from your shell so you can cp foo $bm/bar or cd $bm