bookmarks prompting for a name everytime in the same buffer

Question

Is it possible to have the default bookmark name ( when we add a bookmark ) as the "name of the file: line number" instead of prompting us everytime ? Trying to get the bookmark+.el package be similar to bm.el.

Answer 1

You can customize the bookmark-make-record-function variable to a new routine which creates a default name that you want:

(setq bookmark-make-record-function 'my-bookmark-make-record-default)
(defun my-bookmark-make-record-default ()
  "add on a default name for the bookmark"
  (cons (format "%s:%d" (bookmark-buffer-name) (line-number-at-pos (point)))
        (bookmark-make-record-default)))

Note: this makes the default name be what you requested (file:line), but you're still prompted - just press RET to accept the new name.