bug#39293: [PATCH] Base bookmark-bmenu-mode on 'tabulated-list-mode'

[Stefan Kangas]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > Revisiting this now, I would have been interested to know the answer
>> > to this question: "Could you please explain which limitations you
>> > see, and how you concretely see them affecting bookmark-bmenu-mode?"
>
> See my message of Jan 26 (url in previous mail).

Thanks, that unfortunately takes us back to square one.

As you know, I've tried to understand that email before, and posed a
series of questions in a reply the same day.  Could we please restart
the discussion from there?

1. You wrote that I don't appreciate "the specificity of the features
   offered by libraries such as Dired and bookmarking".  I replied:
   "Which features are you talking about?"

   Could you please clarify this point?

2.  You wrote:

  >   Sorting in Dired or the bookmark list (at least with
  >   Bookmark+) is _much more_ useful and flexible than
  >   just sorting columns.  Why?  Because the things
  >   displayed are of different kinds across rows, not
  >   just across columns.

  I replied that AFAIU you are not limited to sorting across columns
  using tabulated-list-mode.

  Can we therefore consider that part settled?

3. You wrote:

  > Yes, I use it (e.g. in my library `apu.el').  But it
  > is very limited, and the limitations do not just stem
  > from a lack of more generic features.  I use it only
  > when it's appropriate.

  I replied: "Could you please explain which limitations you see, and how
  you concretely see them affecting bookmark-bmenu-mode?"

  Could you please clarify this point?

> Provide a user option.  Make use of tabulated-list
> mode optional.

Maybe, but first we need to understand why it is even needed in the
first place.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas