Re: bookmarks

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

jdavidboyd@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>Ok, I've attached my bookmark file at the end of this message, if I did it
>correctly.

Thanks; I'll try to reproduce.

Do you happen to know which version of Emacs that attached bookmark file
was last saved from?  (I'm hoping this is purely a bug in the
bookmark-bmenu code and has nothing to do with mis-written file formats,
but it wouldn't hurt to know which version last wrote that file, just in
case.)

Best,
­Karl

>What is happening is that the left side, the titles of the bookmarks, looks
>the same in either version of emacs, whether 24.3.1, or 24.4.50.1.
>
>But the right hand side, the pointers to the actual file locations, is wrong.
>
>
>In 24.3.1, buffer looks like
>
>% Bookmark
>- --------
>  (bash) Bash Conditional Expr   /usr/share/info/bash
>  (org) Clocking work time       /usr/local/share/info/org
>  (org) Javascript support       /usr/local/share/info/org
>  Emacs                          ~/org/reference.org
>  custom.el                      ~/.emacs.d/custom.el
>  emacs-init.org                 ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init.org
>  init.el                        ~/.emacs.d/init.el
>  org git source                 ~/.vendors/org
>  org home dir                   ~/org/
>  org-capture-last-stored-mark   ~/org/todo.org
>  org-crypt.el                   ~/.vendors/org/lisp/org-crypt.el
>  org-mobile.el                  ~/.vendors/org/lisp/org-mobile.el
>  org-mode.org                   ~/.vendors/samples/org-mode.org
>
>
>When I look at it in 24.4.50, it looks like
>
>% Bookmark
>- --------
>  (bash) Bash Conditional Expr   /usr/share/info/bash
>  (org) Clocking work time       /usr/share/info/bash
>  (org) Javascript support       /usr/share/info/bash
>  Emacs                          /usr/local/share/info/org
>  custom.el                      /usr/local/share/info/org
>  emacs-init.org                 ~/org/reference.org
>  init.el                        ~/.emacs.d/custom.el
>  org git source                 ~/.emacs.d/emacs-init.org
>  org home dir                   ~/.emacs.d/init.el
>  org-capture-last-stored-mark   ~/.vendors/org 
>  org-crypt.el                   ~/org/
>  org-mobile.el                  ~/org/todo.org
>  org-mode.org                   ~/.vendors/org/lisp/org-crypt.el
>
>
>
>It's like it gets confused somewhere, and loops around a few entries...
>
>
>This happens to me on emacs 24.3 and 24.4.50 running under Cygwin, and running
>under Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS.  At first I just thought it was a Cygwin bug, but
>then was able to replicate it on Ubuntu.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave in New Port Richey, FL