Questions tagged [bookmarks]
Bookmarks are a mechanism for storing locations to things, including files, allowing users to quickly return to them.
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Helm: copy file to bookmarked directory
I am using spacemacs. I want to achieve similar thing to the one in question browse through bookmarks in dired.
I would like to be able to quickly choose an alternative destination from within the ...
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bm-bookmarks show bookmarks on closed buffers
I use the bm package. Is there any way to go to a saved bookmark while the file where it was defined is closed (means not opened in a active buffer). While using :
bookmark-set, bookmark-jump, ...
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Location to bookmark mapping
Is there a function that, for a given location (e.g. the ongoing file/line number) returns an existing bookmark (if any)?
I've looked at the list of functions in bookmark and bookmark+ libraries and ...
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Location-specific bookmarks?
bookmark.el allows basic bookmark manipulation and usage, whereas a bookmark is mostly defined as destination file and location.
Is there a similar library which allows binding originating locations ...
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Is there a quicker way to rename bookmarks?
Is there a quicker way to rename bookmarks?
When I hit r in the Bookmark List, bmkp-bmenu-edit-bookmark-name-and-location asks me for the new name, but it also asks me for a new location, which is ...
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How do I make new bookmarks (`bookmark-set`) be added to the end, not the beginning?
How do I make new bookmarks (bookmark-set) be added to the end of the bookmark file, not the beginning?
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Scripted bookmark jump not working after startup
Add the following to .spacemacs:
(defun my-bookmark-set (char)
(interactive "cPlease enter a bookmark name to set: ")
(bookmark-set (char-to-string char)))
(defun my-...
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bookmark+ highlighting problem
I am trying to use bookmark+, but I am unable to get the highlighting as I wish (or, maybe, as I wrongly expect?):
When I change the default highlight of a bookmark, I only see the purple flag, but ...
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How to create new bookmark type for use with Bookmark+?
With Bookmark+, we can define our own bookmark types, and list bookmarks by type. I am not a lisp programmer. Can someone give me an example of how to define a new type, such as dev or web?
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Multiple Bookmarks Per File
I'm looking at Bookmark+, but is there any way to have multiple bookmarks per file, as in multiple line numbers per file.
When I make a new bookmark in a file, the old one disappears, so it seems as ...
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How to create buffer for custom source code region (e.g for each function)?
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Frame some areas in a source code file, with custom pattern (e.g "# - Name of Region - #"),
and then having the choice to type the name of region to directly open a buffer ...
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How to change projectile-bookmarks.eld saving path?
emacs keeps generating file called projectile-bookmarks.eld in home directory.
How could I make it to save that file under ~/.emacs.d/tmp or a different path?
I also keep seeing Reverting buffer ‘...
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Organizing images in emacs
There is image-mode and image-dired, but if you want to do anything except sequential viewing, they become clunky quickly. And they are slow for good quality photographs.
I would like to be able to go ...
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Evaluate elisp in Bookmarks File
Is there a reasonable way to evaluate elisp within a bookmarks file in Emacs?
For example, I bookmark all of my typical remote file paths and am in the middle of trying to get a dynamic IP address set ...
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Bookmark Plus and pdf-tools/pdf-view error
I've installed Bookmarks+ from quelpa recently, and everything was working fine until I made a minor tweak with my pdf-tools config. Now I cannot jump to bookmarks of .pdf files from any buffer, ...
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Turn off fringe character for org-capture
I updated to Emacs 28 recently and org-capture now puts a small character in the left fringe for captured items. I know that I can set fringe-mode to no-fringe to not see any fringe, but that's not ...
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How can I save a personal bookmark file?
I work on doom-emacs and keep personal configuration in .doom.d, thus leave the gene config .emacs.d.
Today, I re-installed doom.emacs to .emacs.d, but find all my bookmarks disappeared when launch ...
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Make pdf-tools remember the page I was on
How to make pdftools remember the page I was on when I close a PDF document, restart Emacs and reopen the PDF? Some PDF readers after opening a document go to the last page the user was on and don't ...
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Bookmarks relative to projectile-project-root?
Often, the git repos I work in have a similar layout (for example every python project has a setup.py with an install_requires line in it).
Is it possible to add a bookmark that points to a similar ...
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Changing the width of the columns of the bookmarks display?
I love the bookmarks features of Emacs. I have managed my bookmarks kind of hierarchic. But that leads to longer bookmarks, which now don't fit into the column any more.
Is there a way, to enlarge ...
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Bookmarks for non-file buffers?
I know about Book Marks, which is a great way to save shortcuts to certain files and locations within them.
However, when I C-x r m in a non-file buffer, say Python or Shell, I only get:
bookmark-...
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Different versions of bookmarks for home and office computer
Linux Mint 20.2
Emacs 27.2
I installed Emacs 27.2 on my home and office computer. Both computers on LInux Mint 20.2
I has the same init.el for both computers. And its very convenient.
I push my init....
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bookmark+: The bookmark specific jump handlers don't work: `(wrong-type-argument listp bmkp-dired-history)`
I have bookmark+ Version: 2020.12.29
When I try to jump to a dired bookmark (bmkp-dired-jump), I get the error:
In ‘bmkp-dired-jump History’ source: ‘#[0 \304\302\300\305\303$\211\205\0\306\307\310\...
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How to clear bookmark highlighting
A few months back my Emacs started to highlight bookmarks. I build and run from master, using the Homebrew emacs-head package. However even after I remove bookmarks, the highlighting remains. I ...
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bookmark-jump to org-mode file with collapsed headings not working as expected
I have a bookmark in one of my org files (set using the usual emacs bookmarks), but I'm finding that when I try to jump to the bookmark (with the usual C-x r b, which invokes bookmark-jump), it doesn'...
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reload bookmarks file without restarting Emacs?
I'm using Emacs (latest master branch as of June,2017) and I'm using Syncthing (like Dropbox) to store my emacs-bookmark file which I load in my configuration using
'(bookmark-default-file "~/Sync/...
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Saving filter list for Bookmark+ package
I've recently started using the BookmarkPlus package and I've been loving it.
However there is one thing that I can't seem to figure out. I want, from my big list of bookmarks,
to create a set of ...
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How to script a bookmark-jump call
I am trying to write a function which will perform a bookmark-jump but then reset the the bookmark line to the top of the screen. So far I have:
(defun foo ()
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(bookmark-jump)
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Adding bookmarks in pdf-tools
Is there a way to add and view bookmarks in pdf-tools?
Or else How could I go about adding this feature?
I'm not actually sure if this is even a feature of pdfs.
All I know is I can do this with ...
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Can I Jump to bookmark using a pattern?
Using Spacemacs, if I SPC f r to search for recent files I am prompted for a pattern. I can enter e.g. a value of our which will match a file named Journal.org.
However if I do C-x r b to jump to a ...
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How can I set and jump to file-specific Bookmark+ bookmarks
I am trying to use Bookmark+ because I would like the ability to create bookmarks with the same name that jump to locations in different files.
E.g. I have files foo and bar open in emacs. I would ...
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Can I navigate Bookmark+ bookmarks like I can with e.g. helm-bookmark?
I am experimenting with Bookmark+ and would like to be able to navigate to a bookmark using a similar workflow to that which I currently use to navigate bookmarks.
For example, previously in order to ...
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How to bookmark current line right before jumping to beginning of buffer and get back?
I am working on Python files and jump to beginning section to fix some imports and come back to point I am working on.
I want to use Bookmark, when I make a change on beginning of the file and come-...
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Get magit views in to bookmarks plus
After doing some changes in a git "feature branch", I use "magit diff" to review/cleanup before pushing code to GitHub.
My question is
a) How can I get this ^ magit buffer in to my bookmarks+ (C-x r ...
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Is there a way to get proper "breadcrumbs" behavior in emacs?
I want something that I figured would be pretty basic, what with all the fancy mark-ring and all, but I can't find a way to get.
I want a global (i.e. across files) no-nonsense "breadcrumbs" behavior ...
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Quickly jump to favorite folders
What I actually want
I have deep folder structures, and often use a dozen folders pretty far down the directory tree. In Nautilus, I use bookmarks to get to them quickly. I want the same thing in ...
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Looking For Simple Bookmark Package
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 ...
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Bookmark Plus: Correct bookmark file after directory/file rename
I had a couple of bookmarks for a given file, then I decided to rename the directory of the file. Now list-bookmarks ( I am using the bookmark+ package) shows all the bookmarks for the given file in ...
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Retracing steps with emacs (When programming /exploring)
Often when fixing a bug or implementing a new feature in a code repository, I start off with an investigatory step.
For example, I would have a lead, a word such as "Article" and I would start by ...
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how enable emacs bookmark plus autocompletion
How do I make the C-x j j prompt dynamically autocomplete?
So when I try "qu" emacs autosuggest "query.rb" from my bookmarks
, without me having to press tab.
Dynamic autocompletion works when I do C-...
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Can I (or should I) toggle off the left side of bookmark-list display (Bookmark+)?
I started using Bookmark+. Haven't customized it at all,
it seems its using the left half of the screen to show what seems like "duplicate" information.
As I using this tool right?
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After setting bookmark: `Wrong type argument: listp, "~/.spacemacs`
So I did just M-x bookmark-save in my original .spacemacs file, which lead to the case that when I booted Spacemacs, I get the following error:
Upgrading bookmark format from 0 to 1...
mapcar: Wrong ...
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bookmark-alist-from-buffer: Cannot read definitions in bookmark file: Invalid read syntax: "#"
The above error occurs when I try to set a bookmark on a help buffer.
The bookmark looks like this:
#1=(#("Some bookmark" 0 3
(bmkp-full-record #1#))
(buffer-name . "*Help*")
(visits . 0)
(time . #2=(...
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user-error: That register’s buffer no longer exists
I saved point to register, closed buffer / restarted Emacs and got:
user-error: That register’s buffer no longer exists
I want Emacs to open file if necessary and go to point.
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Project management in projectile or other, like Sublime Text's projects
Ever since I first started using Emacs (Spacemacs) a few months ago I've been trying to set up a sane multi-project workflow. I got the single project workflow going by having Emacs start up into what ...
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Add browser bookmark to bookmark browser
What I mean is, can I add a URL to my Emacs bookmarks, such that selecting the bookmark runs the URL through browse-url?
Desired behavior
What I would like is a bookmark-set-url function that ...
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Multiple transient (and colorful) mark-modes
When reading a book it's nice to have a marker to highlight some phrases.
When re-reading my own code, I often would like to highlight several regions ("here is the set-up", "here is the conclusion", ...
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eww bookmark mangagement?
I've found myself using the eww web browser more and more for text-based sites (e.g., documentation, news, etc.) This is great because I don't have to load an external GUI browser and leave emacs. ...
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bookmarks file and multiple emacs instances
Creating bookmarks in different emacs instances leads to loss of bookmarks data. Is there an easy way to fix this?
Something like merge current bookmark data with bookmark data from bookmarks file, ...
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Bookmarking / Highlighting lines in a file
Is there an Emacs feature for highlighting some lines in a file to make it easier to jump around? My immediate use-case is a gigantic auto-generated C++ file with horrible indentation, which is rather ...
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