Re: changing bookmark entry

[B. T. Raven]

"Mike Ballard" <dont_w@nt_spam.org> wrote in message
news:m264l8k637.fsf@west_f1.net...
>
> In ~/.emacs.bnk I have a bookmark which opens an existing file; the file
> is continually being written to by another source.  So the line the
> bookmark code set to open the file to originally, is now way up near the
> top of this growing file whenever I open this bookmark.
>
> How can I change the ~/.emacs.bmk entry to make it always open this
> bookmarked file and position point at the end of the buffer instead?
>
> Here's the code as it is now:
>
> (("bookmark title"
>   ((filename . "<path to some file>")
>    (front-context-string . " 18:32:29 EDT 20")
>    (rear-context-string . "t)  - Sat Apr 08")
>    (position . 8154)))
>
>

Maybe you don't need a bookmark then but just a macro that visits that
file and moves point to the end. Here's an example:

C-x ( C-x C-f d:/mydocu~1/dribdrab <ret> M-> C-x ) <ret> ;; define kbd
macro

M-x name-last-kbd-macro <ret> dribdrab

C-x C-f ;; visit your .emacs

move to where you want the macro definition inserted...

M-x insert-kbd-macro <ret> dribdrab

this produces:

(fset 'dribdrab
   [?\C-x ?\C-f ?d ?: ?/ ?m ?y ?d ?o ?c ?u ?~ ?1 ?/ ?d ?r ?i ?b ?d ?r ?a
?b return ?\M->])

Then you can M-x dribdrab or set dribdrab to a key if you want. I set it
with defalias:

(defalias 'ddb 'dribdrab) for invocation with M-x ddb.

Just change the names to protect the innocent on your system.

Ed.