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20.18 Convenience Features for Finding FilesIn this section, we introduce some convenient facilities for finding recently-opened files, reading file names from a buffer.
If you enable Recentf mode, with M-x recentf-mode, Emacs maintains a list of recently opened files. To open a file from this list, use the M-x recentf-open command. When this mode is enabled, the ‘File’ menu will include a submenu that you can use to visit one of these files. M-x recentf-save-list saves the current recentf-list
to a file, and M-x recentf-edit-list edits it.
If you use remote files, you might also consider customizing remote-file-name-access-timeout
, which is the number of seconds after which the check whether a remote file shall be used in Recentf is stopped. This prevents Emacs being blocked.
The M-x ffap command generalizes find-file
with more powerful heuristic defaults (see Finding Files and URLs at Point), often based on the text at point. Partial Completion mode offers other features extending find-file
, which can be used with ffap
. See Completion Options.
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