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

[Paul W. Rankin]

On 18 May 2021, at 8:49 pm, Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> The discussion there also raises concerns about some unintended
> consequences of the new feature, such as with Org refile/capture[1] or
> when overwriting an existing bookmark[2].
> 
> [1] https://bugs.gnu.org/48179#63
> [2] https://bugs.gnu.org/48179#60
> 
> So I suggest you chime in there.

Yep, those are from where I pulled Eli's quote. There's a lot of discussion 
there but only briefly touching on whether this should be nil by default, where 
consensus  seemed to be nil by default is most appropriate, but then someone 
yolo'd it to t anyway.

The elephant in the room there that *of course* those with an existing 
understanding of the feature don't find it disruptive -- they already know 
exactly what's happening! For everyone else it's a WTF moment (which is now 
fixed by defaulting to nil; nothing more to see here, move along folks...).