bug#48179: bookmark-fontify [PATCH]

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:

> I thought I did base the patch on yesterday's gnu.org cgit version...
> Here's what the on-line log is showing me...
>
>    Age                  Commit message (Expand)                    Author     
>   Files Lines
> 2020-09-07 Use format-prompt in read-file-name calls that     Lars 
> Ingebrigtsen 1     -3/+3
>            have a default

There's been half a dozen commits to bookmark.el after that one, so I
think your Emacs is out of date.  The latest is

commit f5b172fb6e41e9bf75acd1fd94325a13d75987bf
Author:     Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 15 00:43:15 2021 +0100

>> Also -- it's slightly obscure what it's doing, but testing seems to
>> indicate that it just puts a face over the current line when you're
>> doing a `C-x r m' command?
>
> Just. Yes, that is the entire point: "colorize a bookmark's line".

It wasn't clear to me what that meant -- colourise the line in the
bookmark buffer?  Or somewhere else.

> Yes. If someone deletes the buffer after creating the bookmark, the
> overlay will be lost. What you're asking for is a simple two or three
> lines to add to the jump function, but there's no sense if you can't
> even apply the current patch. If you can figure out what the problem is
> with that, I can add the trivial code for the jump.

Great.

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