From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bookmarks: separate set of bookmarks in directory
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:12:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF-1L2THMCADNpLpoMabZbmvGF0zRUJyY85vLiTacYL6DoHr0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f80080e8-1bb7-4dbb-9c38-4a1aecabb3a4@default>
I thank you for your advice. It looks daunting; I think, though bookmarks
to bookmark files then arranging for directory specific bookmark files may
do what i need with minimal distraction, better than what i had envisioned.
Alan
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:02 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> I can't address all of your questions, in particular for lack of time;
> sorry.
>
>
>
> You can have any number of bookmark files. You can load them separately,
> switching from one to another, or you can load any number of them together.
>
>
>
> You can create a *bookmark to a bookmark file*, i.e., a bookmark that,
> when invoked ("jumped to") loads a particular bookmark file, either adding
> its bookmarks to the current bookmark list or replacing the current list
> with its bookmarks.
>
>
>
> You can create a bookmark to a sequence of any number of arbitrary
> actions, any of which could be to load a particular bookmark file (either
> adding bookmarks or replacing the current ones).
>
>
>
> There are lots of possibilities. It's up to you to figure out the best way
> to use the available features for your particular use context.
>
>
>
> Specifying your use context in detail to others, so that they might be
> able to help you craft a solution that best meets them, is too much work
> for you and the others. It's better, I think, for you to get acquainted a
> bit with what the tools offer (reading and experimenting), and then to
> figure out what you might do with them to help you get your job done. If
> you run into a particular problem along the way, ask for specific help.
>
>
>
> Thx - Drew
>
>
>
> Drew:
>
> Thank you for your response. I have re-read that section now, and I can
> see some ways that it could help me. My chief concerns are:
>
> 1. for transparency: i don't want to have to think about the
> mechanics of bookmarking or calling or saving them.
> 2. The dropbox bookmarks could, if possible, be stored in one bookmark
> file. Any time I access the folder, using emacs, I would want to see the
> list in a listing such as "list-bookmarks" provides.
> 3. Each machine has a unique set of groupings and files, which would
> ideally be stored in a single unique bookmarks file.
> 4. Saving bookmarks would (in my perfect world) put them into either
> the local or the dropbox bookmarks file, perhaps through a regular
> expression recognition process. Perhaps just recognition of "~/Dropbox" or
> whatever other top level directory name would make this possible?
> 5. If the previous is even possible, it would be sufficient (I think)
> for one bookmark file to load another. Perhaps the idea of setting a
> bookmark file bookmark would make this easy enough. Still I wonder about
> the saving.
>
> I am sorry if this is overly convoluted or if I have missed something
> obvious.
>
> (I might just go ahead and use the directory-wise bookmark files ploy.
> Would there then be an easy way for these to be called by the directory
> bookmark file in the toplevel subdir? (And hence be visible at a glance.).
>
> Thank you again,
>
> Alan
>
--
[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily
available in books. …The value of a college education is not the
learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
---Albert Einstein
"Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves."
---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_
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2017-09-14 3:45 Bookmarks: separate set of bookmarks in directory Alan E. Davis
2017-09-14 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-14 18:47 ` Alan E. Davis
2017-09-15 0:02 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-15 0:12 ` Alan E. Davis [this message]
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