Re: [External] : [emacs bookmark.el] Sorting by last set

[Karl Fogel]

On 25 May 2022, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> That, I was not aware of. So then sorting `bookmark-alist' 
> (differently)
> might not be an option.

Currently, the order of bookmarks in `bookmark-alist' is the only 
record of the order in which the bookmarks were created -- and 
that order is needed for some displayed sorts .  Since bookmarks 
up till now don't have anything like a creation-date element, we 
should just keep the list in creation order, so that this 
information is preserved.

I suppose we could in theory do fancier things, like detect when 
all the bookmarks have a creation date and abandon the need to 
keep the alist in order then, or make sure that just the subset of 
`bookmark-alist' that *doesn't* have creation dates is kept in 
creation order... but there is no need to be fancy.  Let's just 
keep the whole alist in order of creation, even after we add 
creation-date or other date-ish elements.

Best regards,
-Karl