>> My patch allows the user to choose whether or not the bookmark record >> should be in control of the position. > > The bookmark record has already chosen that. Just use a different > kind of record. Why have an option that acts in a blanket manner on > all bookmarks, to ignore their position? I don't see the problem here, surely some users would want to ignore bookmarks' positions. There isn't a similar built-in library that doesn't save position so I feel it should be an option provided by bookmark.el without the user needing to define their own handler. > If this is about save-place then save-place should do the right thing. > See above. If there's an option to be added in that regard, it's a > save-place option: `save-place-ignore-bookmark-position'. The hook > function (see above) can move to the save-place place if the option is > non-nil, and just do nothing if it's nil. Okay, well I've attached that patch here. I understand this is skipping over one of the best features of bookmarks, but I still think it's a valuable option even without the use of save-place. -- Jamie