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23.1.92; Enhancement: bookmark.el should keep bookmarks sorted in ~/.emacs.bmk

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From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.92; Enhancement: bookmark.el should keep bookmarks sorted in 
	~/.emacs.bmk
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:00:22 -0800

I notice that bookmark.el doesn't keep my bookmarks file ~/.emacs.bmk
sorted, but I wish it would: it would make it easier to keep that file
in a revision control system.  In particular, it would make it easier to
resolve conflicts in that file.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.92.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3)
 of 2010-01-31 on flap
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10604000
Important settings:
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Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

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m e m b <tab> <return> S u b m i t SPC m y SPC n i
f t y SPC t i m e s t a m p SPC t h i n g C-c C-c C-x
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Message #10 received at 5538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5538: 23.1.92; Enhancement: bookmark.el should keep
 bookmarks sorted in  ~/.emacs.bmk
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:32:28 +0200

Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I notice that bookmark.el doesn't keep my bookmarks file ~/.emacs.bmk
> sorted, but I wish it would: it would make it easier to keep that file
> in a revision control system.  In particular, it would make it easier to
> resolve conflicts in that file.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately didn't get any
response at the time.)

I'm not familiar with bookmark.el, but it has this comment:

;; The bookmark list is sorted lexically by default, but you can turn
;; this off by setting bookmark-sort-flag to nil.  If it is nil, then
;; the list will be presented in the order it is recorded
;; (chronologically), which is actually fairly useful as well.

So it's supposed to be sorted (one way or the other).

Do you have a recipe for reproducing the non-sortedness of the bookmark
file?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #15 received at 5538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 5538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5538: 23.1.92; Enhancement: bookmark.el should keep bookmarks
 sorted in ~/.emacs.bmk
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 10:02:50 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Sorry, I don't think I've used that feature in years.

It's entirely possible that the lexical sorting was added _after_ I
complained about it.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:32 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I notice that bookmark.el doesn't keep my bookmarks file ~/.emacs.bmk
> > sorted, but I wish it would: it would make it easier to keep that file
> > in a revision control system.  In particular, it would make it easier to
> > resolve conflicts in that file.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately didn't get any
> response at the time.)
>
> I'm not familiar with bookmark.el, but it has this comment:
>
> ;; The bookmark list is sorted lexically by default, but you can turn
> ;; this off by setting bookmark-sort-flag to nil.  If it is nil, then
> ;; the list will be presented in the order it is recorded
> ;; (chronologically), which is actually fairly useful as well.
>
> So it's supposed to be sorted (one way or the other).
>
> Do you have a recipe for reproducing the non-sortedness of the bookmark
> file?
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>

[Message part 2 (text/html, inline)]

Message #18 received at 5538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5538: 23.1.92; Enhancement: bookmark.el should keep
 bookmarks sorted in ~/.emacs.bmk
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:06:48 +0200

Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry, I don't think I've used that feature in years.
>
> It's entirely possible that the lexical sorting was added _after_ I complained
> about it.

It's possible, but the comment is from 1993.  :-)

But it seems unlikely that we'll make further progress on this bug
report, so I'm closing it.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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