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

Volker> (require 'bookmark nil t) Volker> works only in XEmacs > 21.1.14??? (21.1.14 doesn't seem to Volker> know the 4th argument). OK, scratch that idea. SJT> ... but we really should not mark internal utilities as entry SJT> points. Volker> Hmmm - but we donot treat it as internal utility in both Volker> cases (because we call it from menubar-items.el), right??? Volker> Maybe the most consistent way would be to move the Volker> function bookmark-menu-filter to bookmark.el...??? You're right. However, menubar-items and similar code are special cases. What really should happen is that packages register menubar items and callbacks; the callbacks are of course internal to the package. We just don't have such a mechanism. In general I don't like to advertise "maybe" functions because getting them to do the right thing is not always obvious. This is just a theoretical feeling though, I don't have cases to back it up. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.