RE: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting]

[Drew Adams]

> The mark ring marks of course aren't necessarily in display order,
> they're in the order you set them, so without any visual 
> differentiation between the different mark ring mark highlights,
> you can't really tell from the display which mark you'll end up
> at when you hit C-u C-SPC, you just know it's one of 'em - once
> I could see the marks, I found myself wanting "jump to next/prev
> mark relative to point, in display order" more than "pop mark".

OT, FWIW: 

In Icicles, you can "see" the list of marks (the text of their lines) as a set
of completions in *Completions*. And you can sort them in various ways (so you
can access them in various orders). By default, they are in buffer order
(position), not mark-ring order.