recently.el

Track recently opened files to visit them again

Usage

M-x recently-mode Start saving file paths on visiting them

M-x recently-show Display buffer that shows list of recently visited files

Why not recentf?

Of course built-in recentf is a great package, but it lacks some features that I would appreciate if it had:

• Record directories visited with dired
  • recentf-ext also provides this, but this sometimes adds too many entries
  • recently records only the "deepest" paths when going into subdirectories
• Share the file list among multiple Emacs instances
  • sync-recentf also provides this, but the sync can only be triggered with timer
  • recently saves and restores the list every time, if necessary, when adding files and reading the list
• Do not remove entries that are not found in filesystems
  • Today it is common that a file is not found temporarily, for example when using some VCSes like Git
• Use tabulated-list-mode to show the list, instead of a special mode for this

License

This software is licensed under GPL Version 3 (or any later version). See LICENSE for details.