From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting] Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:33:56 -0700 Message-ID: <002101c89868$97d77640$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <47F945C3.1060103@harpegolden.net> <20080406230056.GB5362@muc.de><47F961D2.7080002@harpegolden.net> <47F9639A.5090400@gmail.com> <47F976B4.2070301@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207542877 9262 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 04:34:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 04:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Alan Mackenzie' , 'Glenn Morris' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'David De La Harpe Golden'" , "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 06:35:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jij4V-0003jD-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:35:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jij3s-00063a-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jij3n-00060n-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jij3l-000604-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jij3l-0005zx-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jij3f-0003Tm-Sq; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m374YCx7028391; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:34:12 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m372GgIL009974; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:34:11 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3640261961207542827; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:33:47 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.64.84) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:33:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <47F976B4.2070301@harpegolden.net> Thread-Index: AciYTbZkerKQaZIQRzuoaTsr91Lf9gAGOadw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94547 Archived-At: > Aside: I wonder > if the mark ring would be more appreciated as a bookmarking mechanism > if it were visually represented, maybe little display blips.) FWIW: There are a couple libraries on Emacs Wiki that are related to that idea: . http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/VisibleBookmarks (bookmarks, not marks, but could serve as inspiration) . http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/VisibleMark - highlights only the (current) mark, not multiple marks on mark-ring.