Re: Recent documents: Emacs and GNOME integration

[Piotr Zielinski]

On 17/05/06, Mathias Dahl <address@hidden> wrote:
> What about:
>
>  1. If possible, rewrite addtorecent.py in Emacs Lisp.
>  2. Make a customizable option that will turn this feature on.

That would be sensible, however, we'd need an emacs package for xml
manipulation.  As far as I can see, xml.el is only a parser (can't
modify an existing xml tree).

> >    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.

Yes, and in the name of interoperability both solutions should be
supported I think.

Piotr