RE: Bookmarks: separate set of bookmarks in directory

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

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:

  for transparency: i don't want to have to think about the mechanics of bookmarking or calling or saving them.  
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.  
Each machine has a unique set of groupings and files, which would ideally be stored in a single unique bookmarks file.  
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?
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