bug#5538: 23.1.92; Enhancement: bookmark.el should keep bookmarks sorted in ~/.emacs.bmk

[Eric Hanchrow]

Sorry, I don't think I've used that feature in years.

It's entirely possible that the lexical sorting was added _after_ I complained about it.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 8:32 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com> writes:

> I notice that bookmark.el doesn't keep my bookmarks file ~/.emacs.bmk
> sorted, but I wish it would: it would make it easier to keep that file
> in a revision control system.  In particular, it would make it easier to
> resolve conflicts in that file.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately didn't get any
response at the time.)

I'm not familiar with bookmark.el, but it has this comment:

;; The bookmark list is sorted lexically by default, but you can turn
;; this off by setting bookmark-sort-flag to nil.  If it is nil, then
;; the list will be presented in the order it is recorded
;; (chronologically), which is actually fairly useful as well.

So it's supposed to be sorted (one way or the other).

Do you have a recipe for reproducing the non-sortedness of the bookmark
file?

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