Re: Recent documents: Emacs and GNOME integration

[Mathias Dahl]

>    (defun local-add-file-to-recent ()
>      (when buffer-file-name
>        (start-process "addtorecent.py" nil "addtorecent.py"
>                               (concat "file://" buffer-file-name)
>    "text/plain")))
>
>    (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'local-add-file-to-recent)
>
> That is quite clear and simple.  But we would like to make it work
> totally automatically, which means, Emacs needs to decide automatically
> whether to do this or not.

> How should Emacs decide that?

What about:

1. If possible, rewrite addtorecent.py in Emacs Lisp.
2. Make a customizable option that will turn this feature on.

>    Is there an Emacs package for xml manipulation (adding new nodes,
>    etc.)?

Yes, there is. It's called xml.el. I am not sure which package it
comes from but I think it is included in CVS Emacs.

>    Recently-used.el [7] works in the opposite direction: it makes the
>    system-wide list of recently used files available to Emacs.
>
> That could be a superior method, esp. if it allows Emacs to easily
> determine whether this list exists on your machine.  I expect it to
> be more efficient also, but maybe addtorecent.py is fast enough.

It would be nice but it really does the opposite of the above, does it
not? These are two different things; reading to GNOME's list of recent
files, and writing to it.