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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/bookmark.el | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/bookmark.el b/lisp/bookmark.el index 64b467adfae..31e41a9273c 100644 --- a/lisp/bookmark.el +++ b/lisp/bookmark.el @@ -2054,7 +2054,10 @@ You can mark bookmarks with the \\<bookmark-bmenu-mode-map>\\[bookmark-bmenu-mar (defun bookmark-bmenu-save () "Save the current list into a bookmark file. -With a prefix arg, prompts for a file to save them in." +With a prefix arg, prompts for a file to save them in. + +See also the related behaviors of `bookmark-load' and +`bookmark-bmenu-load'." (interactive nil bookmark-bmenu-mode) (save-excursion (save-window-excursion @@ -2063,7 +2066,19 @@ With a prefix arg, prompts for a file to save them in." (defun bookmark-bmenu-load () - "Load the bookmark file and rebuild the bookmark menu-buffer." + "Load bookmarks from a file and rebuild the bookmark menu-buffer. +Prompt for a file, with the default choice being the value of +`bookmark-default-file'. + +With a prefix argument, replace the current ambient bookmarks +(i.e., the ones in `bookmark-alist') with the ones from the selected +file and make that file be the new value of `bookmark-default-file'. +In other words, a prefix argument means \"switch over to the bookmark +universe defined in the loaded file\". Without a prefix argument, +just add the loaded bookmarks into the current ambient set. + +See the documentation for `bookmark-load' for more details; see also +the related behaviors of `bookmark-save' and `bookmark-bmenu-save'." (interactive nil bookmark-bmenu-mode) (bookmark-bmenu-ensure-position) (save-excursion |