RE: eww and bookmarks

[Drew Adams]

Dunno why, but this message of mine seems never to have
made it to the mailing list (?).  Maybe this time will
be luckier.
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> > > Could you give us some background?  Do eww bookmarks offer some feature
> > > that vanilla bookmarks don't support?  Or did you just want to have
> > > something separate?
> >
> > There's two reasons -- I had no idea that bookmark.el existed.  Well,
> > OK, that's the main reason.
> >
> > The other is that ever web browser has a bookmark facility, and that's
> > not usually mixed in with, well, other stuff.
> 
> [Still dunno why I'm not seeing emacs-devel@gnu.org in the cc list for a few
> posts, and I have to add it manually because Reply All doesn't find it.]
> 
> FYI/FWIW -
> 
> When you use ordinary Emacs bookmarks (e.g. bookmark.el
> or Bookmark+), there's no requirement to mix bookmarks
> of different types.  So EWW bookmarks that are "normal"
> (i.e. Emacs bookmarks, not what EWW calls "bookmarks")
> need not be "mixed in with, well, other stuff."
> 
> You can organize bookmarks in different ways.  One way
> is to use different bookmark files - you can have a file
> just for your EWW bookmarks, or just EWW bookmarks for
> certain purposes.  You can have any number of bookmark
> files, and it's simple to switch among them.
> 
> If you use Bookmark+, there are several other ways to
> organize bookmarks, including:
> 
> * Different bookmark-list displays (which can themselves
>   be bookmarked, BTW, as can bookmark files).  So even if
>   the current bookmark file has bookmarks of different
>   kinds you can show and act on different sets of them,
>   using different listings. [1] [2] [3]
> 
> * You can tag bookmarks, and view/list or act on only
>   those that have a given tag or set of tags.  Tags allow
>   organizations other than just flat sets or trees.  Tags
>   provide the most flexible way to organize bookmarks. [4]
> 
> * You can sort bookmarks in the bookmark-list display in
>   various ways, including according to type (e.g. all EWW
>   bookmarks first). [5]
> 
> * You can filter the bookmark-list display, to show only
>   bookmarks that satisfy some condition(s) (e.g. being an
>   EWW bookmark).  And you can omit bookmarks from display
>   that satisfy some conditions (as in Dired file omitting).
>   [6] [7]
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> 
> 
> [1]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkListDisplay
> 
> [2]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#bookmark-listBookmarks
> 
> [3]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkFileBookmarks
> 
> [4]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags
> 
> [5]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#SortingBookmarks
> 
> [6]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#FilteringBookmarks
> 
> [7]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#OmittingBookmarks