Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]

[Arthur Miller]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> How do you do bookmarks? I just bookmarked a folder with your shortcut
>>> C-c b a; and the bookmark does not show in bookmarks list.
>> diredc-bookmark-* doesn't share the generic emacs bookmark list. The
>> consideration was not mix directory locations with locations within
>> files. I know that emacs bookmarks works on directories and opens a
>> dired buffer for them, but it made no sense to me mix the two forms
>
> Do you think it could make sense to keep diredc bookmarks in the normal
> bookmarks by arranging for the normal "directory bookmarks" to be
> "hijacked" by diredc (i.e. not to open a new dired buffer but to open
> the dir within diredc) when called from diredc?
>
> You'd still have the downside that the general bookmarks include all the
> other non-directory bookmarks, so maybe it's not a good idea anyway.
> [ I'm not using bookmarks very much, so my intuition here is poor.  ]
>
>
>         Stefan
Why would that be a downside?