Re: Temporary notes in Emacs buffers?

[John Yates]

My read is that bookmarks share the same deficiency as tag tables.
That is once loaded it is the user's responsibility to manage.

/john

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:02 AM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > > You can have any number of bookmark files, and they can be stored
> > > anywhere.
> >
> > For vanilla Emacs bookmarks (I guess you spoke of bookmark+ bookmarks),
> > this is not true
>
> It is true also for vanilla Emacs.  A bookmark file
> can be anywhere, and you can have any number of them.
>
> Even vanilla Emacs has command `bookmark-load', and
> that lets you load a bookmark file (located anywhere),
> either (1) replacing the existing set of current
> bookmarks or (2) adding to that existing set.
>
> > I tried to use `bookmark-file' as a file local
> > variable - this has no effect.
>
> `C-h v bookmark-file' tells you that it is "Old name
> for `bookmark-default-file'."  The latter's name and
> doc string tell you that its value is just the
> _default_ location for a bookmark file, e.g. for
> prompting when you save or load:
>
>   "File in which to save bookmarks by default."
>
> > Then I tried with
> > `bookmark-default-file' as file local variable -
> > this is also ignored unless you bind
> > `bookmark-bookmarks-timestamp' to nil in addition.
> > While this finally worked and I could use a
> > file-local bookmark file, my real bookmark file
> > got erased in the process...
>
> I don't understand what you're trying to do; sorry.
> You can have your own variables, file-local or not,
> to do anything, including to point to bookmark files,
> which can be anywhere.
>
> I think maybe you are confusing the default
> bookmark-file location with the location of a given
> bookmark file.  But it's not clear to me just what
> you want to do.
>
> > I learned that authors of the vanilla bookmark code didn't intend to
> > support using multiple bookmark files like this.
>
> Dunno what "like this" means here.
>


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