Re: Moving from Ido to Icicles

[Robert Thorpe]

Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
> I can't speak for Icicles, I've never used it.  Besides, that's Drew's
> job.  :-)  However, you might want to look into "recentf", which is a
> built-in package.  It keeps a list of the <n> most recently opened
> files.  The value of <n> defaults to sixteen, as I recall, but it
> can be changed.  When you access the list (from the menu bar or from C-x
> C-r) it presents you with that list.  You can then select the file
> you want to open.  I've found it quite handy.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.  I tend to use bookmarks with
short names, e.g. "TR", "L", etc. for the files I access most often.
That's not practical for something like a programming project.  For
cases like that you can bookmark the dired listing of the directory.  In
that case a good way to access what you want is to sort the dired buffer
by date.  I use Ido too, but I use bookmarks much more.

BR,
Robert Thorpe