Re: bookmark.el and lisp/gnus/gnus-bookmark.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> Does anyone know why we have both 'bookmark.el' and 'gnus-bookmark.el'?
> The latter says:

>   ;; This file implements real bookmarks for Gnus, closely following the way
>   ;; `bookmark.el' handles bookmarks.  Most of the code comes from
>   ;; `bookmark.el'.

> I'm not sure why GNUS bookmarks should live in a separate space from
> other bookmarks, and my feeling is that they ought to be unified --
> that is, the gnus-bookmark.el functionality absorbed into bookmark.el,
> with compatibility shims to transfer people's ~/.gnus.bmk file
> contents to ~/.emacs.bmk.  (Of course, I really mean whatever the
> values of `gnus-bookmark-default-file' and `bookmark-default-file'
> are, respectively.)

> Thoughts?

Indeed, it seems worthwhile to merge them, tho I've never used gnus-bookmarks.
Bastien?


        Stefan