From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Temporary notes in Emacs buffers?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 18:46:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXoj8u3pFoOBrf7eApSM+xWGt_CwsrOHdNt9AX9zC0yQiPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b74a1e29-31f9-4ee8-861f-8d7097f08689@default>
My read is that bookmarks share the same deficiency as tag tables.
That is once loaded it is the user's responsibility to manage.
/john
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:02 AM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > > You can have any number of bookmark files, and they can be stored
> > > anywhere.
> >
> > For vanilla Emacs bookmarks (I guess you spoke of bookmark+ bookmarks),
> > this is not true
>
> It is true also for vanilla Emacs. A bookmark file
> can be anywhere, and you can have any number of them.
>
> Even vanilla Emacs has command `bookmark-load', and
> that lets you load a bookmark file (located anywhere),
> either (1) replacing the existing set of current
> bookmarks or (2) adding to that existing set.
>
> > I tried to use `bookmark-file' as a file local
> > variable - this has no effect.
>
> `C-h v bookmark-file' tells you that it is "Old name
> for `bookmark-default-file'." The latter's name and
> doc string tell you that its value is just the
> _default_ location for a bookmark file, e.g. for
> prompting when you save or load:
>
> "File in which to save bookmarks by default."
>
> > Then I tried with
> > `bookmark-default-file' as file local variable -
> > this is also ignored unless you bind
> > `bookmark-bookmarks-timestamp' to nil in addition.
> > While this finally worked and I could use a
> > file-local bookmark file, my real bookmark file
> > got erased in the process...
>
> I don't understand what you're trying to do; sorry.
> You can have your own variables, file-local or not,
> to do anything, including to point to bookmark files,
> which can be anywhere.
>
> I think maybe you are confusing the default
> bookmark-file location with the location of a given
> bookmark file. But it's not clear to me just what
> you want to do.
>
> > I learned that authors of the vanilla bookmark code didn't intend to
> > support using multiple bookmark files like this.
>
> Dunno what "like this" means here.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-11 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-27 10:19 Temporary notes in Emacs buffers? Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-27 10:43 ` Mpho Jele
2019-12-27 11:51 ` tomas
2020-01-01 21:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-27 15:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-02 17:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-05 2:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-05 17:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-06 5:18 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-09 1:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-09 23:35 ` arthur miller
2020-01-10 4:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-10 9:30 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-10 10:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-10 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-10 9:10 ` Unknown
2019-12-27 17:48 ` Sharon Kimble
2020-01-01 1:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-01 4:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-01 5:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-01 6:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-01 20:34 ` John Yates
2020-01-01 21:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-01 21:47 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-02 1:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-02 3:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-02 3:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-02 5:30 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-02 15:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-03 1:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-03 3:35 ` John Yates
2020-01-03 6:38 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-03 7:06 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-04 6:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-04 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-06 14:18 ` John Yates
2020-01-06 14:34 ` tomas
2020-01-06 15:19 ` John Yates
2020-01-06 15:31 ` tomas
2020-01-06 16:28 ` arthur miller
2020-01-03 7:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-03 13:31 ` arthur miller
2020-01-05 2:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-11 7:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-11 10:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-11 11:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-11 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-11 23:46 ` John Yates [this message]
2020-01-12 2:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-12 7:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-12 16:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-14 7:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-14 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-15 23:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-02 17:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-02 17:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-09 3:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-15 18:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-20 12:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
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