edit->bookmarks menu: bookmarks-file not automagically loaded

Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! Adrian suggested to move this discussion back from xemacs-patches to xemacs-beta: The problem: The menu-entry: Edit->Bookmarks->Jump-to-Bookmark does not automagically load the default bookmark file (at least in my 21.1.14). To see this do: - create a bookmarks-file: ~/.emacs.bmk - start xemacs: $xemacs -q => Edit->Bookmarks->Jump-to-Bookmark is not active (only after doing: Edit->Bookmarks->Load-a-bookmark-file, it will be activated) I consider this a bug, since the help text of bookmark-load says: Your own personal bookmark file, `~/.emacs.bmk', is maintained automatically by Emacs; you shouldn't need to load it explicitly. The following patch solves this problem for me because it makes sure the default bookmark file is loaded every time one accesses the menu-entry Edit->Bookmarks: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- menubar-items.orig Thu Aug 3 03:59:07 2000 +++ menubar-items.el Sat Mar 2 22:50:50 2002 ＠＠ -989,6 +989,8 ＠＠ ;;; The Bookmarks menu (defun bookmark-menu-filter (&rest ignore) + (require 'bookmark) + (bookmark-maybe-load-default-file) (let ((definedp (and (boundp 'bookmark-alist) bookmark-alist t))) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- However, the patch assumes that bookmarks.el is installed. Therefore, I think the (require 'bookmark) statement should be replaces by something more sophisticated. I see two possibilities: (a) (if (featurep 'bookmark) (progn (require 'bookmark) (bookmark-maybe-load-default-file))) (b) (if (fboundp 'bookmark-maybe-load-default-file) (bookmark-maybe-load-default-file)) And giving the function bookmark-maybe-load-default-file in bookmark.el an autoload cookie... Any suggestions? Volker ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux kesch 2.0.36 #12 Wed Dec 29 23:08:23 MET 1999 i586 unknown ./configure XEmacs 21.1.14 "Cuyahoga Valley" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /usr/local/xemacs/xemacs-21.1 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Using Lisp_Objects with minimal tagbits. 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