From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Bookmarks in non-file buffers? Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:08:45 -0700 Message-ID: <005101c894cb$11179810$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: 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 1207145494 18003 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2008 14:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:11:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'EMACS list' To: "'Dmitri Minaev'" , "'Peter Dyballa'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 16:11:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jh3gZ-0004bx-Ll for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:11:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3fx-0002yU-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3fc-0002yF-Dj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3fa-0002xv-6R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh3fa-0002xs-0Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jh3fZ-0002LD-HX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m32EACix011550; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m316fNtu014191; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:10:11 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3635147921207145318; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:08:38 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.88.179) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:08:38 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AciUrospaLaHpBddRSqC+sHMz0MWOAAGxgCA 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52975 Archived-At: > Actually, what I want is to use Emacs as an ebook reader. Most of my > books are in (or, at least, can be converted into) html and pdf. A > necessary feature of any book-reading program is to save the last > location in the current file. I tried w3m-session-save for html files, > but it only saves the current url, not the point in the buffer. > > As for the Icicles recommended by Drew, I had an impression from the > manual that the multiple regions don't keep the mode used to open the > file. Then maybe the doc needs clarifying - if so, please let me know the particulars. This feature is about saved regions (which you name/tag) - any number, from any buffers. If you revisit the buffers later, you can revisit the regions. Presumably, when you revisit such a buffer you revisit it in the proper mode - that is independent of this feature; it imposes no mode. Also, keep in mind that if the buffer content changes, then the saved regions might be displaced, but that should not be the case for html and pdf files, unless you modify them. This caveat is why I did not simply recommend this feature to you - I said that it might help you. From your description so far, I still think it might help.