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Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]
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Adam Porter |
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Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED] |
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Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:18:51 -0600 |
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> 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. ]
>> Why would that be a downside?
>
> That you can have name conflicts between the diredc and other bookmarks,
> and that when selecting a diredc bookmark you'd have to see all those
> other bookmarks which might make it more timeconsuming to find the
> bookmark you're after.
>
> For the first problem, I don't have a good solution.
> For the second, I think this actually hints at a need for the generic
> bookmark-selection functionality to offer a way to first select a *type*
> of bookmark and only then pick a name among the remaining candidates.
>
> [ And of course, in the absence of such generic support in bookmark.el,
> diredc could do it on its own by offer a command which pre-filters
> the list of bookmarks to only include those which refer to
> directories. ]
Some recent work I've done in Burly[0] touches on this.
Because Burly uses its own bookmark handler function, it was easy to
write a command that offers only bookmarks created with Burly by
filtering them on the bookmark records' handler value.[1]
However, when I tried to write a bookmark-listing command to display
only Burly's bookmarks, it wasn't as easy to re-use existing
functionality. I tried to re-use the list-bookmarks command by binding
bookmarks-alist to a filtered alist, and that worked.
The problem is that re-displaying the bookmarks list (e.g. after
deleting a bookmark) shows the non-filtered bookmarks list. I then
experimented with using buffer-local function advice in the
list-bookmarks buffer to cause it to use the filtered bookmarks list
when re-displaying, but it didn't seem to work. And even if it had, it
would have been very hacky, so it didn't seem like a good solution.
An idea I had was for the list-bookmarks command to use an optional
filter function to filter the bookmarks-alist before displaying them, so
the filter could persist after using commands to manipulate
bookmarks.[2] (Note that the global value of bookmarks-alist would
remain unchanged so that saving the bookmarks to disk still saves all
bookmarks, not just the filtered ones.)
Frankly, I wonder if list-bookmarks ought to be rewritten to use,
e.g. tabulated-list-mode instead of its bespoke code. (Although I'm
guessing that would break much of Drew's Bookmarks+ library...)
0: https://github.com/alphapapa/burly.el
1:
https://github.com/alphapapa/burly.el/blob/e2ab1b2526ce84ad7dd17bf37c0079785619bc8e/burly.el#L156
2: https://github.com/alphapapa/burly.el/issues/14#issuecomment-719803053
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], (continued)
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Boruch Baum, 2020/11/04
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/04
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Arthur Miller, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Boruch Baum, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Arthur Miller, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Jean Louis, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Boruch Baum, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Arthur Miller, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED],
Adam Porter <=
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/05
- RE: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Drew Adams, 2020/11/05
- RE: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Drew Adams, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Arthur Miller, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Jean Louis, 2020/11/05
- RE: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Drew Adams, 2020/11/05
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Boruch Baum, 2020/11/06
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/06
- RE: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Drew Adams, 2020/11/06
- Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED], Adam Porter, 2020/11/06