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

[Protesilaos Stavrou]

On 2021-05-05, 16:51 -0500, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:

> 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!

Thank you Karl and everyone involved!

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