RE: [External] : Bookmark+: automated annotating?

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> I think bookmark-set-annotation and bookmark-get-annotation
> are what I am looking for.

That was my guess.

> Something I was wondering about is if it was possible to display the
> annotations in the bookmark list itself, to the right of the bookmark
> name. Or if that was a feature that had been considered. Of course, only
> the first line of the annotation would fit there. But I think that would
> be still be useful, in the use case where the Bookmark name was simply
> the file name, and the annotation represented some kind of description.

Not at the present.  There are several things that
could be added as columns, and it's not obvious
(to me) whether adding any of them is a good thing
to try.  I've kept adding columns to a minimum.

FYI: If you use only vanilla bookmark.el, not
Bookmark+, it uses `tabulated-list-mode' to
implement the bookmark-list display.  You could
add columns to that display, if you wanted.
I'm not a fan of `tabulated-list-mode' for the
bookmark-list display (a fortiori for Dired) -
too limited.

> The next best thing, it appears, is to use bookmark-bmenu-show-all-
> annotations, which gives you the bookmark names and annotations all in
> one buffer you can scroll through quickly;

Yes.

> unfortunately, however, in the *Bookmark Annotations*
> buffer it is not possible to conveniently navigate
> through the bookmark names (with a TAB or whatever)
> or to jump to one with RET.

Correct.
I haven't made any attempt to modify/enhance
`bookmark-bmenu-show-all-annotations', including
its display.

I don't think a lot of people have really leveraged
the feature of bookmark annotations.  What you have
in mind might be the most that anyone's tried to
take good advantage of it (dunno).