From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Staying in the same place"
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:42:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37fgdnrks.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8u0tql7y.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:36:59 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> The important part is that you can build a "bookmark object" which should
> contain enough data to reproduce the current buffer&position.
Yes, but would that work they way I sketched out in the second message
in this thread? I.e., the mode would supply a function that would
provide a list of (say) 20 places to look for a place that's "the same"?
> You might be able to do that, but what I was proposing was not to let
> users use the bookmark functionality, but simply to have a default
> special-mode-revert-buffer function which would do something along
> the lines of:
>
> (defun special-mode-revert-function ()
> (let ((here (funcall bookmark-make-record-function)))
> (erase-buffer)
> (bookmark-goback here)))
Aha, I see. Yes, that sounds very nice. As long as the bookmark
functionality is sufficiently flexible about the `here' it's willing to
accept..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-04 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-04 5:40 "Staying in the same place" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 6:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 7:28 ` Daniel McClanahan
2016-04-04 12:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-04 18:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-04 18:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-04 19:25 ` Karl Fogel
2016-04-04 19:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 19:49 ` Karl Fogel
2016-04-04 19:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 23:21 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-05 0:36 ` Drew Adams
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