Overriding Emacs' Broken Bookmark Position Code (Shallow Thoughts)

Overriding Emacs' Broken Bookmark Position Code

Emacs has a useful function called bookmarks, where you can make short names for files you visit often.

But bookmarks has one terrible misfeature: it also remembers your position in the file.

That sounds like a good thing, right? But the problem is that the bookmarks system only records these positions sporadically. So it's easy to get stuck on a position you were editing months ago.

For example: I have a bookmark for the file where I keep track of appointments and other calendar entries. But lately, every time I open this bookmark, it opens it with the cursor positioned on September 24. That's three months away; its not the part of the file I'm interested in right now.

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