Re: changing bookmark entry

[Kevin Rodgers]

Mike Ballard wrote:
> In ~/.emacs.bnk I have a bookmark which opens an existing file; the file
> is continually being written to by another source.  So the line the
> bookmark code set to open the file to originally, is now way up near the
> top of this growing file whenever I open this bookmark.
>
> How can I change the ~/.emacs.bmk entry to make it always open this
> bookmarked file and position point at the end of the buffer instead?
>
> Here's the code as it is now:
>
> (("bookmark title"
>   ((filename . "<path to some file>")
>    (front-context-string . " 18:32:29 EDT 20")
>    (rear-context-string . "t)  - Sat Apr 08")
>    (position . 8154)))

(goto-char POSITION) will move point to the end of the buffer if
POSITION is greater than (point-max).  So choose the largest possible
buffer position on your platform:

(defconst most-positive-fixnum (eval '(lsh -1 -1)))

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Kevin Rodgers