Re: bookmark+ and constraint on inserting space in bookmark name, with bookmark-set

Re: bookmark+ and constraint on inserting space in bookmark name, with bookmark-set

[Michael Heerdegen]

Alan <wehmann@fnal.gov> writes:

> I am new to use of bookmark+ (see
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BookmarkPlus) and have noticed a
> behavior that seems odd to me.  If I use function "bookmark-set" I
> find that I cannot freely insert spaces into the bookmark name.  The
> space character is bound to "minibuffer-complete- word" and that is
> not letting me enter a space as I wish.  A work around is to use
> underscores instead of spaces, and later edit the bookmark and replace
> the underscores with spaces in the bookmark name.  With vanilla
> bookmarks (came with "GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw- nt5.1.2600) of
> 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO") I don't have such problems.  What am I not
> understanding here?

Hi Alan,

I think you just hit a bug.  I can reproduce what you describe.  I've
contacted the author of Bookmark+, Drew Adams, and we'll try to find a
fix soon.  Thank you for finding this.

Please don't hesitate to report bugs you find directly to Drew Adams
<drew.adams@oracle.com>, even if you are not 100% sure.

BTW: you can still insert spaces with C-q SPC (C-q is `quoted-insert')
in the minibuffer.


Michael.

RE: bookmark+ and constraint on inserting space in bookmark name, with bookmark-set

[Drew Adams]

> > I am new to use of bookmark+ (see
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BookmarkPlus) and 
> > have noticed a behavior that seems odd to me.  If I use function
> > "bookmark-set" I find that I cannot freely insert spaces into the
> > bookmark name.  The space character is bound to
> > "minibuffer-complete-word" and that is not letting me enter a
> > space as I wish....
> 
> I think you just hit a bug.  I can reproduce what you describe.  I've
> contacted the author of Bookmark+, Drew Adams, and we'll try to find a
> fix soon.  Thank you for finding this.
> 
> Please don't hesitate to report bugs you find directly to Drew Adams
> <drew.adams AT oracle.com>, even if you are not 100% sure.
> 
> BTW: you can still insert spaces with C-q SPC (C-q is `quoted-insert')
> in the minibuffer.

I think I've fixed this bug.  Thanks for the report.  (I read the help-gnu-emacs
mailing list, and the newsgroup-to-mailing-list link is apparently broken, so I
didn't get your initial report.  Thanks to Michael H. for the followup mail.)

FYI - I didn't notice this problem sooner because I use Icicles, and with
Icicles there is no problem entering characters such as `SPC' during completion.
Unlike vanilla bookmark.el, Bookmark+ uses (lax) completion for `bookmark-set',
so you can more easily reuse and edit an existing bookmark name for the new
bookmark.  (FWIW, there are many ways in which Icicles enhances what Bookmark+
offers, but Icicles is not required.)

Please see the Bookmark+ doc for `bookmark-set'.  Let me know if you run into
another problem.