Recent file list?

[Alex van der Spek]

What little experience I have with emacs makes me want to use it more
often.

Is there in emacs such a feature as "Recent file list?" If so, how do I
activate it? Custom emacs modes are normally activated in a .emacs file.
Unfortunately, such a file is not anywhere to be found on either my
Ubuntu or Debian machines.

Regards,
Alex van der Spek

[Loris Bennett]

Post by Alex van der Spek
What little experience I have with emacs makes me want to use it more
often.
Is there in emacs such a feature as "Recent file list?" If so, how do I
activate it? Custom emacs modes are normally activated in a .emacs file.
Unfortunately, such a file is not anywhere to be found on either my
Ubuntu or Debian machines.
Regards,
Alex van der Spek

Have a look at

M-x customize-group recentf

I also have

(define-key global-map "\C-cr" 'recentf-open-files)

in my .emacs

HTH

Loris

[Glyn Millington]

Post by Alex van der Spek
What little experience I have with emacs makes me want to use it more
often.
Is there in emacs such a feature as "Recent file list?" If so, how do
I activate it? Custom emacs modes are normally activated in a .emacs
file. Unfortunately, such a file is not anywhere to be found on
either my Ubuntu or Debian machines.

Create a .emacs file in your home directory and insert these lines:

(recentf-mode 1)
(setq recentf-max-saved-items 30)
(setq recentf-max-menu-items 30)

30 is my own preference, so adjust to taste :-)

You will then have a menu-item under the "File" menu - f you use menus.

Hope that helps


Glyn

[Sergei Organov]

Post by Alex van der Spek
What little experience I have with emacs makes me want to use it more
often.
Is there in emacs such a feature as "Recent file list?" If so, how do
I activate it? Custom emacs modes are normally activated in a .emacs
file. Unfortunately, such a file is not anywhere to be found on
either my Ubuntu or Debian machines.

Most probably the OP needs to edit ~/.emacs.d/init.el instead.

HTH

-- Sergei.

[a***@gmail.com]

As others have said:
(recentf-mode 1)
will activate logging of files.

(setq recentf-max-saved-items 100)
will save the last 100 files visited.

And then:
M-x recentf-open-files
will pull up a buffer with list of recent files

But sometimes it's easier to just use the menu bar: File -> Open Recent

-deech

[r***@gmail.com]

Post by Alex van der Spek
What little experience I have with emacs makes me want to use it more
often.
Is there in emacs such a feature as "Recent file list?" If so, how do I
activate it? Custom emacs modes are normally activated in a .emacs file.
Unfortunately, such a file is not anywhere to be found on either my
Ubuntu or Debian machines.
Regards,
Alex van der Spek

People have suggested recent, but I actually much prefer helm-recentf which comes with the helm group of extensions.

M-x package-install helm
M-x helm-recentf

But bind it to something more useful of course =]