Found exactly what I was looking for: bookmarknav . Give it a try.

Maindoor.

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: simple requirement, so simple don't know how to search
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 11:28 PM

rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Feb 3, 12:47 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maindoor <sanjeevfi...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> > Exactly. It is a weird default. If it were global, that would be it. It would have been
>> > perfect. I am a newbie to lisp.
>> > Drew, If I may request, If you can hack it up a little bit, it would be great.
>> > Perhaps concat the list as in bm-show-all and then do a bm-next on it,
>> > instead of a getting the list from the local buffer.
>>
>> > Maindoor.
>>
>> Use bm-show-all and "space" to see the buffer associated with the
>> bookmark under point. I had a brief look and, well, its way beyond my
>> elisp - its some heady mixture of overlays for current buffer bookmarks
>> and man made strings with text properties for global lists. I might try
>> later but don't hold your breath ;)
>
> bm-show-all with emacs straight after startup (no open files/buffers)
> says
> "No bookmarks defined"

As I would expect. I didn't try or suggest the persistent part of
it so can not really add anything.

>
> If I then open a file where I had previously put a bookmark and do bm-
> show-all -- it shows only that file's bookmarks, not the bookmarks in
> other files.

It shows all bookmarks in all buffers in the current
session. BTW, only bookmarks set with the bm interface. The code loops
on all open buffers.

> So it appears that bm does not know of a bookmark unless you somehow
> go to a bookmark and say Hello :-)
>
> Would you classify this as a working bookmark system?

Well, yes. As it does work in the scenario previously discussed.  I cant
comment on your attempts at using persistence  as I haven't tried it myself.

>
> My bm setup attempt is as under:
>
> (setq bm-restore-repository-on-load t)
> (require 'bm)
> (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'bm-repository-load)
>
>   ;; Restoring bookmarks when on file find.
>   (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'bm-buffer-restore)
>
>   ;; Saving bookmark data on killing a buffer
>   (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'bm-buffer-save)
>
>   ;; Saving the repository to file when on exit.
>   ;; kill-buffer-hook is not called when emacs is killed, so we
>   ;; must save all bookmarks first.
>   (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook '(lambda nil
>                            (bm-buffer-save-all)
>                          (bm-repository-save)))
>
>   ;; Update bookmark repository when saving the file.
>   (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'bm-buffer-save)
>
>   ;; Restore bookmarks when buffer is reverted.
>   (add-hook 'after-revert-hook 'bm-buffer-restore)
>
> (autoload 'bm-toggle   "bm" "Toggle bookmark in current buffer." t)
> (autoload 'bm-next     "bm" "Goto bookmark."                     t)
> (autoload 'bm-previous "bm" "Goto previous bookmark."            t)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<f8>")   'bm-next)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<M-f8>") 'bm-previous)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<C-f8>") 'bm-toggle)
> (setq-default bm-buffer-persistence t)
>

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