Re: [emacs-humanities] Extending Emacs Bookmarks to Work with EWW

[Karl Fogel]

On 03 Feb 2021, Oliver Taylor wrote:
> In both Ibuffer and Dired you mark items for deletion with ‘d’ 
> and
> kill the buffers/files with ‘x’ -- you then have to confirm the
> deletion with ‘y’ or cancel it with ’n'. I think it would be nice 
> if
> bookmarks asked for the same confirmation.

Hey, Oliver and anyone else following this sub-thread:

This functionality is now committed in Emacs 'master' branch, 
meaning it will be in Emacs 28.x whenever that comes out.  The 
option to control the behavior is a new variable named 
`bookmark-menu-confirm-deletion'.

That option is set to nil by default, meaning by default Emacs 
will *not* prompt to confirm deletion.  There was some discussion 
on the devel list about which way the default should be, and we 
eventually settled on not changing the current behavior -- so 
those who want confirmation will need to set that option to 
non-nil.  (It's possible that we might change the default in some 
future version of Emacs, but only after the new option has been 
out in the world for a while.)

Thanks for the suggestion, Oliver!

Best regards,
-Karl