Re: [emacs-humanities] Extending Emacs Bookmarks to Work with EWW

[Karl Fogel]

On 03 Feb 2021, Oliver Taylor wrote:
> In both Ibuffer and Dired you mark items for deletion with ‘d’ 
> and kill the buffers/files with ‘x’ -- you then have to confirm 
> the deletion with ‘y’ or cancel it with ’n'. I think it would be 
> nice if bookmarks asked for the same confirmation. 

Ah, got it, thanks.

This is the sort of thing that some people will like and other 
people will definitely not like, of course.  Neither side is right 
or wrong -- just different people dealing with different 
tradeoffs.

So my thought is: a new variable `bookmark-menu-confirm-deletion', 
defaulting to `t' (that is, confirmation would be the new default 
behavior), to control whether confirmation happens.  Those who 
don't want confirmation -- i.e., those who want the old behavior 
-- would have to set that variable to nil.

Confirmation would only happen in Bookmark Menu mode, of course. 
If someone does `M-x bookmark-delete' and supplies a bookmark name 
explicitly, then the named bookmark will just be deleted as 
before.

If all this sounds right to you, then we can float it on 
emacs-devel next and then (assuming people like it) implement it.

Now, I'd be happy to do the implementation.  However, if you have 
been wanting to write Elisp, then I'm also happy to serve as 
reviewer for a change that you make!  (Or as guide and reviewer, 
depending on your level of skill/experience.)  It would be normal 
for there to be several iterations of such a patch, and I'm fine 
to work with you until we're satisfied.  Once the change is ready, 
I'll commit it, but (assuming we do the 'git-format-patch' dance 
right) you would be the author.

(There might be a one-time step in which you need to submit some 
paperwork to the Free Software Foundation, for copyright 
assignment, but that would only be true for this first substantive 
commit -- thereafter, you would be on file.)

Thoughts?

Best regards,
-Karl