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=== How to make use [[Ido]] for accessing recent files? === | === How to make use [[Ido]] for accessing recent files? === | ||
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| + | {{Note| The following snippet binding {{CommandKeys|M-f11}}. change | ||
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Revision as of 20:01, 1 April 2012
| Description | helps opening a file that is recently visited |
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| Author | David Ponce |
| Maintainer | FSF |
| Source | http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/recentf.el |
| Part of Emacs | yes |
recentf helps you to open files that are recently accessed.This package maintains a menu for visiting files that were operated on recently. When enabled a new "Open Recent" sub menu is displayed in the "File" menu. The recent files list is automatically saved across Emacs sessions. You can customize the number of recent files displayed, the location of the menu and others options (see the source code for details).
Basic setup
To enable this package, add the following to your .emacs
(recentf-mode 1)
Customization
How to make use Ido for accessing recent files?
Note: The following snippet binding [M-f11] (or M-x {{{2}}}). change
for according to your to taste
(defun steve-ido-choose-from-recentf ()
"Use ido to select a recently opened file from the `recentf-list'"
(interactive)
(find-file (ido-completing-read "Open file: " recentf-list nil t)))
;;; bind it to "M-f11"
(global-set-key [(meta f11)] 'steve-ido-choose-from-recentf)