From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bookmark.el and lisp/gnus/gnus-bookmark.el Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874pbj682f.fsf@red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204829165 22824 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2008 18:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Guerry Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 19:46:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXL6f-0002hd-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:46:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXL68-0002Yr-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXL63-0002TP-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXL60-0002MY-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXL60-0002MA-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXL60-0006KG-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:36 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CALfKz0fO+LKX/2dsb2JhbACsWoEH X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,457,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="15667905" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 06 Mar 2008 13:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.178.151]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id MVZ07835; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C66F9816B; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:45:34 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <874pbj682f.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:06:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91536 Archived-At: > Does anyone know why we have both 'bookmark.el' and 'gnus-bookmark.el'? > The latter says: > ;; This file implements real bookmarks for Gnus, closely following the way > ;; `bookmark.el' handles bookmarks. Most of the code comes from > ;; `bookmark.el'. > I'm not sure why GNUS bookmarks should live in a separate space from > other bookmarks, and my feeling is that they ought to be unified -- > that is, the gnus-bookmark.el functionality absorbed into bookmark.el, > with compatibility shims to transfer people's ~/.gnus.bmk file > contents to ~/.emacs.bmk. (Of course, I really mean whatever the > values of `gnus-bookmark-default-file' and `bookmark-default-file' > are, respectively.) > Thoughts? Indeed, it seems worthwhile to merge them, tho I've never used gnus-bookmarks. Bastien? Stefan