From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: simple requirement, so simple don't know how to search
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:58:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hkcdfc$grk$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3dbe53b3-4966-4d45-bcf6-58737e1cfd3d@f17g2000prh.googlegroups.com
rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> On Feb 3, 12:47 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maindoor <sanjeevfi...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> > Exactly. It is a weird default. If it were global, that would be it. It would have been
>> > perfect. I am a newbie to lisp.
>> > Drew, If I may request, If you can hack it up a little bit, it would be great.
>> > Perhaps concat the list as in bm-show-all and then do a bm-next on it,
>> > instead of a getting the list from the local buffer.
>>
>> > Maindoor.
>>
>> Use bm-show-all and "space" to see the buffer associated with the
>> bookmark under point. I had a brief look and, well, its way beyond my
>> elisp - its some heady mixture of overlays for current buffer bookmarks
>> and man made strings with text properties for global lists. I might try
>> later but don't hold your breath ;)
>
> bm-show-all with emacs straight after startup (no open files/buffers)
> says
> "No bookmarks defined"
As I would expect. I didn't try or suggest the persistent part of
it so can not really add anything.
>
> If I then open a file where I had previously put a bookmark and do bm-
> show-all -- it shows only that file's bookmarks, not the bookmarks in
> other files.
It shows all bookmarks in all buffers in the current
session. BTW, only bookmarks set with the bm interface. The code loops
on all open buffers.
> So it appears that bm does not know of a bookmark unless you somehow
> go to a bookmark and say Hello :-)
>
> Would you classify this as a working bookmark system?
Well, yes. As it does work in the scenario previously discussed. I cant
comment on your attempts at using persistence as I haven't tried it myself.
>
> My bm setup attempt is as under:
>
> (setq bm-restore-repository-on-load t)
> (require 'bm)
> (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'bm-repository-load)
>
> ;; Restoring bookmarks when on file find.
> (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'bm-buffer-restore)
>
> ;; Saving bookmark data on killing a buffer
> (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'bm-buffer-save)
>
> ;; Saving the repository to file when on exit.
> ;; kill-buffer-hook is not called when emacs is killed, so we
> ;; must save all bookmarks first.
> (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook '(lambda nil
> (bm-buffer-save-all)
> (bm-repository-save)))
>
> ;; Update bookmark repository when saving the file.
> (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'bm-buffer-save)
>
> ;; Restore bookmarks when buffer is reverted.
> (add-hook 'after-revert-hook 'bm-buffer-restore)
>
> (autoload 'bm-toggle "bm" "Toggle bookmark in current buffer." t)
> (autoload 'bm-next "bm" "Goto bookmark." t)
> (autoload 'bm-previous "bm" "Goto previous bookmark." t)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<f8>") 'bm-next)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<M-f8>") 'bm-previous)
> (global-set-key (kbd "<C-f8>") 'bm-toggle)
> (setq-default bm-buffer-persistence t)
>
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-28 12:39 simple requirement, so simple don't know how to search Maindoor
2010-01-28 12:50 ` Mario Domenech Goulart
2010-02-01 5:47 ` Maindoor
2010-02-01 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-02 8:35 ` Maindoor
2010-02-02 12:24 ` Richard Riley
2010-02-02 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-03 4:50 ` Maindoor
[not found] ` <mailman.589.1265113565.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-02 19:07 ` rustom
2010-02-02 20:36 ` Richard Riley
2010-02-03 4:50 ` Maindoor
2010-02-03 7:32 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-03 7:47 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.636.1265183360.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-03 16:57 ` rustom
2010-02-03 17:58 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-02-04 6:03 ` Maindoor
2010-01-28 13:22 ` Richard Riley
2010-01-28 14:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-28 17:36 ` Richard Riley
2010-01-29 7:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-30 9:19 ` tomas
2010-01-29 8:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] <mailman.680.1265263392.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-05 10:03 ` rustom
[not found] <mailman.354.1264682403.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-18 9:27 ` Stefan Kamphausen
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