From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Daniel Colascione' <dan.colascione@gmail.com>,
'Emacs development discussions' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auto-EOF for bookmarks
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:33:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjqcmri9.fsf@kwarm.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0755B8E79D92481E846986B1EDBAA0B8@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:38:23 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> This patch changes the bookmark feature to automatically jump
>> to the end of the buffer if a bookmark was set there. It is
>> backwards-compatible. If the change in default behavior is
>> too drastic, then would it be okay to add a facility to
>> explicitly set a follow-EOF bookmark?
>
>It's fine to add an optional ability to say "create a bookmark that
>will always point to the eob/eof". As one user, I disagree that
>creating a bookmark at eob should automatically or by default create it
>as an always-go-to-eob-bookmark.
>
>IOW, as an option, I don't have a problem with it, but it shouldn't be
>what happens by default when you create a bookmark with point at eob.
>
>I also wonder a bit, "Why?". How hard is it to hit `M->' after jumping
>to a bookmark? Am I missing something wrt the use case?
I think Drew's final question there sums up my feelings too.
I can why always-go-to-EOF would be useful sometimes, but... it's
already so easy to jump to the end of a buffer with `M->' anyway.
The UI machinery needed to distinguish between "I want to set a bookmark
right here, near these words" and "I want to set a bookmark right here,
always at the end of the file" would be cumbersome. We'd have to find a
way to ask the user each time, or the user would have to know a special
prefix sequence, or a variable, or whatever, to specify it.
IMHO, the cost of this UI machinery would outweigh the limited benefit
of having the feature at all.
Best,
-Karl
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2011-07-11 2:05 [PATCH] auto-EOF for bookmarks Daniel Colascione
2011-07-11 13:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 21:33 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
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