[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5591: marked as done (23.1.92; bookmark.el and file path)

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regarding 23.1.92; bookmark.el and file path
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> 23.1.92; bookmark.el and file path
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> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:48:59 +0000
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> If you open a file in your home directory and bookmark it, the path in
> bookmark list (C-x r l) will be something beginning with ~ for example:
> ~/Emacs/gtd/Tasks.org.
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> However, if the directory gtd does not exist and you use bookmark's
> relocation to change to a new file, say ~/Emacs/todo/Tasks.org. The path
> in bookmark list will be a absolute path:
> /home/someone/Emacs/todo/Tasks.org.
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> Using a absolute path here is not a good idea. For example I sync some
> directories between machines and I don't have the same user name on all
> of them. And these bookmarks will fail.
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> Another case. I recently installed Snow Leopard and decided to create a
> different user name for myself. But I find out many bookmarks are no
> longer valid due to the use of absolute paths.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.92.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0 AppKit 
> 1038.25)
>  of 2010-02-03 on Victoria.local
> Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.6.2
> configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local/unix/emacs' '--with-mac''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Major mode: Group
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> Re: bug#5591: 23.1.92; bookmark.el and file path
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> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:54:18 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux)
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> > However, if the directory gtd does not exist and you use bookmark's
> > relocation to change to a new file, say ~/Emacs/todo/Tasks.org. The path
> > in bookmark list will be a absolute path:
> > /home/someone/Emacs/todo/Tasks.org.
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> Thank you.  Should be fixed now,
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>         Stefan
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