From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Alan E. Davis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Bookmarks: separate set of bookmarks in directory Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:12:33 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505434392 3852 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2017 00:13:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 02:13:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dseFm-0000pm-E1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:13:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dseFt-0003B4-Ep for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dseFS-0003Ag-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dseFR-0003yl-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::231]:54518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dseFQ-0003yQ-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:12:44 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf0-x231.google.com with SMTP id d187so516257pfg.11 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:12:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=cMA2i3PIH7tQFaD749Iga/cZqdVnZ4ehzJUxovHM/Tg=; b=WlWfqt42bz5DwhC769DqnLYytF6GsDTn3DNBq2L7oNUj6xjksbDFRpk00f8kMZa9R1 lhujCspSbAB1dsRMpbvzrv36qv0iTlDlRoA0VK9V6iC5TF8xtMAtW59wQZx2/z8NvKAg LaqIwKPLGp6cdGpOP+yrHWv8llDlGCtnMV0w4r1MLA4uG6pOjPHmRSbDUj32nmFlDX7z kSKVSPSUj/ceUgLnpEE2UMCnGvmhSCLF/J8ewXng5J/VR4zjT388f5TclU8MEvn3jt35 1AOI7ggs4fUOXYPHHc3jNpM72lsszxYndQm/uRJio4O2a1R5fYGXudZTPv7yBWDUjJgW iMQA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=cMA2i3PIH7tQFaD749Iga/cZqdVnZ4ehzJUxovHM/Tg=; b=W0SHCoUViODAlgSNN2aPuYzX9xCg8hysqzWy9vofJHWV+xLAAwMSR2NIevOjohgc4R jk/3wR+B0/88jq4KsNzRtteUTa6DBJsorwGabPngmFjUBv4iKFtM2fFpMzQ+NVd+cH2I 5HtjtJTBF5T9dT3UAMzMdbWVbQGnQpoPfrn24VjnkK/FuKk6EYx2rDlCUFCGFSi7Q2B9 hSeHX7bSSeEPTbKsEzYIHrfOeyiFjU8noLP2U1jqggG3Lye1FZOr5KAwCQoUyLfA5fyo kf8fwrKeE7cBQqeDF5b5u4rm76j654AQUcLeUYDk1Jsx1tn++IQZE3/jHaxybuOxB428 dIHg== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUidW1u2MF0sI8mdA3c9AqB7Fy8ZM3x3EI+c8b6X3Q99z0hZpcCh Y0CuS5gj4XNxXBAZBVfeRpA3ZRfsJCwEy6/0V/c= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADKCNb5oe/8OOfX8ClsPO/nxR7xZrWRJJ4E/oCUKuxhabBdLuFhVqiKL6fa9kY0LahFW1YtWs+ZTArA2pb+eeS2VNA0= X-Received: by 10.98.218.24 with SMTP id c24mr22689665pfh.289.1505434363906; Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::231 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114286 Archived-At: 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 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 togethe= r. > > > > You can create a *bookmark to a bookmark file*, i.e., a bookmark that, > when invoked ("jumped to") loads a particular bookmark file, either addin= g > 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 wa= y > 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 "~/Dropbo= x" 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 ab= out > 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 > --=20 [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. =E2=80=A6The 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_