Re: bookmarks

[jdavidboyd@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:

> 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




Emacs 24.3.1 wrote to this file last.

Dave