Re: Please, Restore Previous Behavior for jump-to-register

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:22:10 +0000
> Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com, 
>       thievol@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 
>       eller.helmut@gmail.com, tino.calancha@gmail.com
> 
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 3:45 PM Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:
> >
> > On 14/12/2023 17:31, João Távora wrote:
> > > If we want confirmation prompts, visual
> > > popups, etc, why don't we add those to bookmark.el?  It already has a
> > > completing-read UI that is much more suitable for this, and would
> > > allow these features much more naturally.  There are a bunch of
> > > completing-read-friendly extensions for bells and whistles out there.
> >
> > IIUC bookmarks don't contain all the same kind of information. They're
> > only for file positions. So you can't even save a point to bookmarks
> > when the buffer doesn't visit a file.
> >
> > Nor can you store strings or numbers there.
> 
> This could be added

It could, but it shouldn't.  Bookmarks are not for storing arbitrary
stuff, let's not take a nearly-perfect feature and add random stuff to
it that doesn't belong.