Looking For Simple Bookmark Package

Question

Can you recommend, a good bookmark package?

• Yes, emacs standard has bookmarks. Although, hate naming them.
• Just want something small, not uber sophisticated (like bookmark+). (It crashes my setup, at the moment, had to remove it.)
• All I want is a hotkey to mark one location, per file.
• Don't care about saving, between sessions. (Great if just during session.)
• Although, I do have "save last edited place" working now. (Don't know, name of package off top of head.)

Really after, just a remember position (in key), then other hotkey to recall. Yes, plain Emacs bookmark could do this? With a name in macro.

• But, is that the best way?
• Or easiest way?

Answer 1

I use this function to quickly create meaningful bookmarks with a single keypress, without having to think about it:

(defun my/quick-save-bookmark ()
  "Save bookmark with name as 'buffer:row:col'"
  (interactive)
  (bookmark-set (format "%s:%s:line %s:column %s"
            (thing-at-point 'symbol)
            (buffer-name)
            (line-number-at-pos)
            (current-column)))
  (message "Bookmarked saved at current position"))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-S-b") 'my/quick-save-bookmark)

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it seems to basically meet your description. I have found it to be very useful and lightweight. I also use helm and this to quickly see my bookmarks:

(bind-key "<menu>" 'helm-bookmarks)

Answer 2

If you wonder how to use the current line's contents as bookmark description, here it is:

(defun my/quick-save-bookmark ()
  "Save bookmark with name as 'buffer:row:line-contents'"
  (interactive)
  (bookmark-set (format "%s:%s:%s"
        ;; (thing-at-point 'symbol)
        (buffer-name)
        (line-number-at-pos)
        (string-trim (buffer-substring-no-properties (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))
        ;; (current-column)
    ))
  (message "Bookmarked saved at current position"))
(define-key global-map [remap bookmark-set] 'my/quick-save-bookmark)

Replaces the usual bookmark-set shortcut C-x r m. Works nicely with helm. Also, helm displays bookmarks in chronological order, which automatically assigns sort of a context to them. BTW: you can mark bookmarks in helm using C-SPC and then use C-d to delete them.