Re: [PATCH] lisp/bookmark.el: make bookmark-fontify nil by default

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

"Paul W. Rankin" via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> On 2021-05-18 16:58, Karl Fogel wrote:
>> On 18 May 2021, Paul W. Rankin" via "Emacs development discussions. wrote:
>>> Ugh. Not sure how this slipped into master but it is not a
>>> good/considerate idea to set default value of bookmark-fontify to t.
>>> If there are no reasonable objections I'll push this later today.
>> I don't have a strong opinion either way, but if you're curious as to
>> where this came from, it was here:
>> The discussion in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=48179
>> is quite long, so it might be worth reading before reverting.
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> The discussion there only seems to account for compatibility with package bm.el,
> not the more general "avoid pushing your idea onto everyone" idea. And given the

The discussion there also raises concerns about some unintended
consequences of the new feature, such as with Org refile/capture[1] or
when overwriting an existing bookmark[2].

[1] https://bugs.gnu.org/48179#63
[2] https://bugs.gnu.org/48179#60

So I suggest you chime in there.

> overlay is temporary, it's quite opaque for the average person to inspect it to
> see what's actually happening. It's so ugly my first thought was that something
> had broken rather than this was actually an intentional feature.
>
> I'm going to commit this without further discussion -- which hopefully should
> remind others to take the more considerate route when introducing new features!

-- 
Basil