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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> that editing text within the fontified region will (expectedly) expand
> the fontified part, questioning the very idea of having an "area" for
> indicating where the bookmark points.
>
> A fringe marker for the line where this point is seems useful enough.

Ah, yes -- good point.  So a fringe marker seems like the right thing
here, I think.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But we need to find some replacement for TTY frames then.

Well, we could just say that this isn't supported on TTYs.  Or...  we
could use a text property on the single character where the bookmark is
(normally the first character on a line), but that'd look pretty odd.

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