From: Jamie Beardslee <beardsleejamie@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add user option to disable location in bookmarks
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:24:42 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blld2x5h.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ad9899d6-1ce8-4f78-a96a-6c52041a9aec@default
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> You don't specify what the actual problem is. How does a bookmark
> interfere with save-place? Maybe provide a step-by-step recipe to
> show the problem, starting from `emacs -Q' (no init file).
‘bookmark-set’ saves the position--by which I mean point and context
strings--with no option (that I can find) of not saving it. When using
‘bookmark-jump’, point will always be moved to that position, ignoring
the position from save-place.
> Just what behavior are you looking for? Do you not want to open the
> file at all? (If so, what do you want the bookmark to do with the
> file, instead of opening it?)
>
> If you want the bookmark to open the file, where do you want the
> cursor to be in it - at what position?
My patch allows the user to choose whether or not the bookmark record
should be in control of the position.
> A bookmark can target a file in any way you want, including (but not
> limited to) opening it at a given position. You can easily bookmark a
> file so that the bookmark opens it with the cursor at position 1, for
> example. (And you need not visit a file in order to bookmark it.)
>
> Finally, a bookmark need not have any `location' field.
I understand this. I think it would be useful to have a simple
accessible way to effectively disable the point manipulation part of
bookmarks. It’s not exactly convenient to edit the bookmark file by
hand every time a bookmark is created just to disable this feature.
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Jamie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-20 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-20 19:27 [PATCH] Add user option to disable location in bookmarks Jamie Beardslee
2020-06-20 21:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-20 22:24 ` Jamie Beardslee [this message]
2020-06-20 22:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-20 23:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-20 23:34 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-21 0:22 ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-06-21 5:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-21 9:56 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-06-21 9:13 ` Yuri Khan
2020-06-21 18:44 ` Drew Adams
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