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

[Eli Zaretskii]

On May 18, 2021 11:17:04 AM GMT+03:00, "Paul W. Rankin via Emacs development 
discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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!

Please don't make this change until you hear from Lars, who examined the 
original patch and decided to install it.  It doesn't get more "considerate" 
than that.