RE: [PATCH] Add user option to disable location in bookmarks

[Drew Adams]

> >> My patch allows the user to choose whether or not the bookmark record
> >> should be in control of the position.
> >
> > The bookmark record has already chosen that.  Just use a different
> > kind of record.  Why have an option that acts in a blanket manner on
> > all bookmarks, to ignore their position?
> 
> I don't see the problem here, surely some users would want to ignore
> bookmarks' positions.

Positions of all bookmarks, of any type?
Maybe there are such users.  But my point was
that such a shotgun approach isn't needed, to
solve the specific save-place problem.  Just
do it for save-place (and optionally, per a
user option).

> There isn't a similar built-in library that
> doesn't save position so I feel it should be an option provided by
> bookmark.el without the user needing to define their own handler.
> 
> > If this is about save-place then save-place should do the right thing.
> > See above.  If there's an option to be added in that regard, it's a
> > save-place option: `save-place-ignore-bookmark-position'.  The hook
> > function (see above) can move to the save-place place if the option is
> > non-nil, and just do nothing if it's nil.
> 
> Okay, well I've attached that patch here.  I understand this is skipping
> over one of the best features of bookmarks, but I still think it's a
> valuable option even without the use of save-place.

Yes, that's the idea.  (Didn't try it, but a
priori LGTM.)