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Bookmarks are a mechanism for storing locations to things, including files, allowing users to quickly return to them.

Bookmarks are provided as a built-in feature of Emacs, and are explained in the manual.

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How can I bookmark Info page to continue reading later?

How can I bookmark Info page to continue reading later ?
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Quickly jump to favorite folders

What I actually want I have deep folder structures, and often use a dozen folders pretty far down the directory tree. In Nautilus, I use bookmarks to get to them quickly. I want the same thing in Emacs, as I plan to use Dired more. My plan My plan…
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Bookmark Plus: Correct bookmark file after directory/file rename

I had a couple of bookmarks for a given file, then I decided to rename the directory of the file. Now list-bookmarks ( I am using the bookmark+ package) shows all the bookmarks for the given file in yellow (indicating that they are no longer valid).…
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Make pdf-tools remember the page I was on

How to make pdftools remember the page I was on when I close a PDF document, restart Emacs and reopen the PDF? Some PDF readers after opening a document go to the last page the user was on and don't start from the beginning, I'd like Emacs to do the…
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How to save a desktop with narrowed indirect buffers?

I am unable to figure out a way to save my narrowed indirect buffer window, and restore it as it was. Say I have a frame with several windows containing several indirect buffers, each narrowed to a different subtree (org mode) or region. What I…
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Bookmarks relative to projectile-project-root?

Often, the git repos I work in have a similar layout (for example every python project has a setup.py with an install_requires line in it). Is it possible to add a bookmark that points to a similar line in a file relative to…
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Bookmarks mode with quick selection list and autodetected names from context?

I like recentf and like jump-to-register, ibuffer, ido-switch-buffer but during code investigation I need a lot of switching between already visited points. Having short memory I like reviewing possibilities through list of available options, like…
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Is there a way to get proper "breadcrumbs" behavior in emacs?

I want something that I figured would be pretty basic, what with all the fancy mark-ring and all, but I can't find a way to get. I want a global (i.e. across files) no-nonsense "breadcrumbs" behavior - that is, the ability to jump backwards (and…
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Using Emacs/Org to Create a Tagged, Searchable Collection with Images

Background After exiting the Linux world for a few years to do the gaming PC thing, I have recently come back to the fold. For the most part, the transition has been easy, but there's one 'tool' I'm having problem replacing: Evernote. As some of you…
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Pinboard website (i.e., non-Emacs) bookmark editing in Emacs

I recently switched over to pinboard.in for organizing website bookmarks. I'm looking for a way to organize my bookmarks in Emacs. I've installed the pinboard-api package but I can't seem to find any of the pinboard commands in the helm autocomplete…
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eww bookmark mangagement?

I've found myself using the eww web browser more and more for text-based sites (e.g., documentation, news, etc.) This is great because I don't have to load an external GUI browser and leave emacs. Meanwhile, I've created a fairly large set of eww…
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Reorder bookmarks

Is there any way of reordering the list of bookmarks that is shown in bookmark-bmenu-list (C-x r l) ? I want to put some commonly accessed bookmarks in the top and group them by meaning.
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Bookmarks across different computers

Bookmarks in the bookmarks file appear to be saved using absolute paths. This creates conflicts resolving bookmarks in a file that is synced across different computers: Absolute path computer 1: /user/sync/file_with_bookmark Absolute path computer…
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How can I connect to a Jabber group chat through a bookmark with jabber.el?

How can I connect to a group chat using a bookmark with jabber.el? I figured out how to look at the bookmarks via M-x jabber-edit-bookmarks, but I can't find any commands to actually use them! (Actually editing bookmarks seems unsupported, at least…
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Organizing images in emacs

There is image-mode and image-dired, but if you want to do anything except sequential viewing, they become clunky quickly. And they are slow for good quality photographs. I would like to be able to go through my collection, quickly deleting and…
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