On: Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?

[rayvega]

Between and during Emacs sessions, being able to view a list of my recently opened files via C-x C-r and then select and re-open them as needed.

    ;; recent files
    (require 'recentf)
    (recentf-mode 1)
    (setq recentf-max-menu-items 25)
    (global-set-key "\C-x\ \C-r" 'recentf-open-files)

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