Hey, I’m looking for a package to manage bookmarks for inside Emacs.

I’ve tried the built-in functionality but the configuration contains a lot of junk which makes it hard to manage and share between machines.

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  • doolio_@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I presume you are speaking of browser bookmarks. I simply use an org file where each bookmark is hyperlinked. I will add this file to Emacs bookmarks as suggested already in this thread and then I’m thinking I could use embark-act to open in my browser from the minibuffer.

    • Thaodan@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’m talking about the Emacs internal bookmarks not browser bookmarks.

  • 7890yuiop@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    the configuration contains a lot of junk

    What do you mean? What is the specific problem?

    • Thaodan@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The bookmark file contains information when it was last modified.

      It did look similar like the Gnus newsrc which also mixes configuration and runtime information.

      • 7890yuiop@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Ok. Mine doesn’t, but I’ll believe yours does. Why is that making it hard to for you to share it between machines?

  • mok000@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The configuration of bookmarks is just a file. You can edit it or even delete it.

  • glgmacs@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have my bookmark file as a bookmark itself: C-x r b -> mybookmarks
    then it can look as simple as this:

    (("init.el"
  (filename . "~/.emacs.d/init.el"))
 ("early-init.el"
  (filename . "~/.emacs.d/early-init.el"))
 ("bookmarks"
  (filename . "~/.emacs.d/bookmarks")))

    it is shared between different machines without problem.