bug#81662: 31.1; [FR] Registers pointing to bookmarks

Stéphane Marks <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 9:18 AM Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU
> Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > I propose to support bookmarks as register content. This way register
>> > keys can be used as quick access keys to bookmarks. Bookmarks are
>> > supported by many major modes. The feature can be implemented easily
>> > since register.el uses generic methods:
>>
>> As I mentioned recently elsewhere, I think it would be good to
>> consolidate the two (as well as the `revert-buffer-function` and the
>> help-xref state), so I think it's a step in the right direction.
>>
>> > (cl-defmethod register-val-describe ((bm (head bookmark)) _verbose)
>> >   (princ (format "Bookmark \"%s\"" (cdr bm))))
>>
>> Ah, so you'd use `(bookmark . NAME)` as representation?
>> I was expecting we'd use the actual "bookmark record" rather than use an
>> indirection through `bookmark-alist`.  Now that I see this option, I'm
>> not sure which is best.
>>
>
> One downside to using a bookmark name is that bookmark-rename and
> bookmark-delete won't know about a register's name reference, now stale.
> In the bufferlo package, we've taken some care with both to warn about
> potential conflicts and propagate changes in bufferlo bookmark structures.
> This could be cleaner.

Bookmarks can also point to files and files can be renamed too. The
situation is just the same here.

Daniel