Re: [PATCH] lisp/bookmark.el: make bookmark-fontify nil by default

[Paul W. Rankin]

On 2021-05-18 16:58, Karl Fogel wrote:
> On 18 May 2021, Paul W. Rankin" via "Emacs development discussions. 
> wrote:
> > Ugh. Not sure how this slipped into master but it is not a
> > good/considerate idea to set default value of bookmark-fontify to t.
> >
> > If there are no reasonable objections I'll push this later today.
>
> I don't have a strong opinion either way, but if you're curious as to
> where this came from, it was here:
>
> The discussion in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=48179
> is quite long, so it might be worth reading before reverting.

Hi Karl,

The discussion there only seems to account for compatibility with 
package bm.el, not the more general "avoid pushing your idea onto 
everyone" idea. And given the overlay is temporary, it's quite opaque 
for the average person to inspect it to see what's actually happening. 
It's so ugly my first thought was that something had broken rather than 
this was actually an intentional feature.

I'm going to commit this without further discussion -- which hopefully 
should remind others to take the more considerate route when introducing 
new features!