bug#56896: 29.0.50; [PATCHv3] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark

[Jim Porter]

On 8/4/2022 9:41 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Ok, I figured out a way to do this. I added a proxy object 
> ('bookmark--fringe-mark') that I can dynamically set the 'fringe' 
> property on, and then the :set function will update that and the display 
> code will Just Work. Well, so long as a redisplay is triggered, but I 
> think happens when you set options via Customize? It worked in my tests, 
> anyway.
>
> This method feels kind of hacky, but I can't think of a better way, and 
> it's certainly more feasible than trying to find all the fringe markers 
> manually. (Given that code can define custom bookmark handler functions, 
> I'm not even sure that would have been possible...)

Here's a better version of this patch. Rather than a proxy object, it 
just sets the 'fringe' property on the defcustom, which the rest of the 
bookmark code can then use like a "regular" fringe bitmap (essentially, 
it's just an alias to a real fringe bitmap). I also added a 
'fringe-custom-set-bitmap' function that anyone can use as a :set function.

This should be general enough that it could be used wherever anyone 
wants to allow users to use Customize to change the fringe bitmap that 
gets used for a particular purpose. Potentially, it could even be used 
for *every* use of a fringe bitmap. That would let users pick icons they 
like for a particular purpose based on their general description (e.g. 
'right-triangle'), but they could also independently adjust the bitmaps 
(e.g. redefining all the fringe bitmaps to be larger for high DPI 
monitors). For the latter case, maybe users could download a package 
from ELPA to do that.

0001-Make-the-bookmark-fringe-icon-look-like-a-bookmark.patch
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