Re: [PATCH] lisp/bookmark.el: make bookmark-fontify nil by default

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

    > [That was in May.]  Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
    >> 
    >> > Please don't make this change until you hear from Lars, who
    >> examined > the original patch and decided to install it.  It
    >> doesn't get more > "considerate" than that.
    >> 
    >> It does seem to be an unexpectedly (to me, at least)
    >> controversial change, so perhaps it should be tweaked.  For
    >> instance, using fringe markers (on frames that support that)
    >> instead of highlighting the entire line, or something else that
    >> isn't that stark.

    > This discussion sort of fizzled out with everyone, as far as I can
    > tell, mostly agreeing that a fringe marker or similar might be
    > better for the default behaviour.  On master, bookmark-fontify is
    > still t, and the highlighting is still done by changing the
    > background colour.

    > In general, I think we are sometimes too cautious with turning on
    > so-called "bells and whistles", so I'm actually in one sense happy
    > to see that a useful new feature is enabled by default.  Yet I'm a
    > little surprised that this particular feature happened to pass the
    > bar.

    > I personally find that highlighting the entire line is fairly
    > distracting,

Me too. I use bookmark.el for a file, with bookmark-fontify set to nil,
but I use bm.el (<https://github.com/joodland/bm>) for a point in a
file. The advantage of bm.el is that the marker does not extend the
whole length of the line, which, for me, more than compensates the
inconvenience of using two different bookmark libraries.


Best wishes,