bug#29110: 25.2; Should push-mark allow duplicates?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> writes:

> The `push-mark' function allows for duplicate marks.  I fail to see a
> use case, but otherwise I think it's rather inconvenient:

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I think the argument for not filtering duplicates is that it makes
traversing the history less predictable -- if you do two point-setting
commands, you know that you have to pop the stack twice to get back to
before that.

And we can't change the default of such a basic command, because it'd
annoy too many people.  (If somebody wants push-mark to filter
duplicates, it'd be easy to add advice to push-mark to do that.)

So I'm closing this bug report.

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