RE: bookmark.el patch for 1) other window and 2) C-x p instead of C-x r

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@Oracle.com>]

> > Here is a bookmark.el patch with a minor enhancement to let you
> > use another window.
> >
> > It also replaces use of `C-x r' for bookmark commands by use of
> > `C-x p'. I think that's better, because:
> >
> > 1. It reserves all of `C-x r' for register and rectangle commands. (Even
> > those should be split, IMO.)
> >
> > 2. It lets you reuse the standard bookmark keys with `C-x p', instead of
> > having, for instance, `j' mean jump in the bookmark-map, but
> > `b' mean jump when used with `C-x r'. Nothing new to remember this way:
> > just add `C-x p' in front of all bookmark-map keys.
>
> But why C-x p ??

No special reason. I've been using that for years, but anything else would
do.

These are already taken: `b' (for `bookmark'), `f' (for `favorite'), `s'
(for `saved place'), and `d' (for `dog-ear').

> Personally, I would reserve C-x p for printing commands.
> I suggest using C-x j as bookmark prefix.

OK by me. I doubt we'll find a character that's mnemonic for what bookmarks
are, anyway.

> Then C-x j j would be bookmark jump (which is easy to type)
> and C-x j m (mark) is nicely close to type easily as well...

Go for it.