bug#29110: 25.2; Should push-mark allow duplicates?

[Pierre Neidhardt]

> Consider this:
>
>     mark-ring-max is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’.
>     Its value is 16
>
>     Documentation:
>     Maximum size of mark ring.  Start discarding off end if gets this big.
>
>     You can customize this variable.
>
> global-mark-ring-max is the same idea.

Damn, I had no clue about that one.  Thank you for shattering my
ignorant concern to pieces! :D

That being said, it raises another problem (sorry for being so
annoying): if we have a limit _and_ we allow duplicates, it means that a
lot of duplicates will discard old entries more quickly.

> One thing to note is that push-mark resets markers before discarding
> (so that they no longer point to any buffer).

Thanks a lot, that's an excellent lead.  Indeed, that might be the root
of the issue.  We will investigate further.

Thanks for all!

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Pierre Neidhardt

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