Re: Moving from Ido to Icicles

[Will O'Brien]

On 1 Nov 2014 21:08, "Robert Thorpe" <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

I use icicles with recentf, it works very  nicely, as you might expect. I
also use icicles to navigate bookmarks (bookmarks+) which then gives us
best of all worlds.

See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Bookmark_Enhancements

I was a big ido fan, but converted to icicles mainly for superior tag
navigation.

Cheers

Will