Re: Fwd: :show-marks

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 06:00:41PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:09 AM Paul Fox <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > marc wrote:
> > >  > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 9:20 AM Marc Simpson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >  > >
> > >  > > It looks like :show-marks (or :marks, :list-marks) erroneously
> > >  > > displays '(none)' for buffers that have one or more marks.
> > >  >
> > >  > I only just noticed the most significant part of this problem:
> > >  >
> > >  >     Named marks for [Named Marks]
> > >  >     (none)
> > >  >
> > >  > i.e., :marks is listing marks for its own buffer, not the buffer that
> > >  > was being edited.
> > >  >
> > >
> > > I think it's because the [Named Marks] buffer is current.  If you
> > > switch back to your edit buffer, the [Named Marks] buffer updates
> > > correctly.
> > 
> > Confirmed here too; thanks Paul.
> > 
> > > So it seems like :show-marks buffer is being made current,
> > > when it shouldn't be.
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> hmm - I probably should review the various commands which create buffers
> to see if there's other stuff to fix (or possibly add a mode to control
> the behavior).

I read through these, didn't see any obvious to change...
 
> > Sidenote/related: It also looks like marks in the [Named Marks] buffer
> > are ignored, even though the "[Mark 'x' set]" is displayed.  If this
> > is intentional, then perhaps that message should be suppressed or
> > changed.
> 
> thanks (on my to-do list)

I added that :-)

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