Bookmark in Project

By default Emacs built-in bookmark are global (shared across all projects), This package exposes functions that limit bookmarks to the current project.

Available via melpa.

Motivation

When working on multiple projects at once, it's not always desirable to use a global list of bookmarks, especially for features such as jumping to the next/previous bookmarks.

This package aims to make working on a single project convenient without interfering the functionality of existing built-in commands.

Usage

This package doesn't make any and changes to Emacs bookmarking functionality. Instead it exposes commands which you may bind to keys

The key features provided are:

• Limit bookmark switching to other bookmarks in the same project.
• Support for toggling a bookmark (with automatic naming based on the context).
• Jump next/previous bookmark within the project.

All other built-in bookmarking functions can be used too, however all other projects bookmarks will be accessible too.

Commands

bookmark-in-project-jump-next, bookmark-in-project-jump-previous

Jump to the next/previous bookmark in the current project.

bookmark-in-project-jump, bookmark-in-project-jump-other-frame, bookmark-in-project-jump-other-window

Jump to another bookmark in the project (equivalent to bookmark-jump, bookmark-jump-other-frame .. etc).

bookmark-in-project-toggle

Create/delete a bookmark on the current line, named using bookmark-in-project-name.

Equivalent to bookmark-set, bookmark-delete.

bookmark-in-project-delete-all

Delete all bookmarks in the project.

Customization

Note that in general these settings can be left as-is, but may be extended to adjust default behavior.

bookmark-in-project-project-root ('bookmark-in-project-project-root-default)

Function that finds the projects root-directory from the current buffer. This callback takes no arguments and must return a string or nil.

The default function uses find-file-in-project, projectile when available, falling back to version-control and finally default-directory if all other methods fail.

bookmark-in-project-name ('bookmark-in-project-name-default-with-context)

Function that uses the current buffer and point to create a bookmark name. This function takes no arguments and returns a string or nil.

The default function uses the project relative file name and the context at or before the cursor-location (calculated using imenu).

A simpler callback is also provided, called: 'bookmark-in-project-name-default-with-line.

bookmark-in-project-name-fontify ('bookmark-in-project-name-default-fontify)

Function that applies highlighting to the bookmarks. This function takes and returns a string representing the bookmark name.

To disable highlighting set the value to 'identity.

bookmark-in-project-verbose-toggle

Show a message when toggling bookmarks.

bookmark-in-project-verbose-jump

Show a message when jumping to next/previous bookmarks.

Details

• Jumping to bookmarks uses ivy when available, since it supports switching bookmarks without closing the completing read (see ivy-next-line-and-call & ivy-previous-line-and-call).

  Otherwise the default completing read is used.

• Bookmarks are skipped when obscured by narrowing.

Installation

The package is available in melpa as bookmark-in-project, here is an example with use-package:

(use-package bookmark-in-project
  :commands (bookmark-in-project-jump
             bookmark-in-project-jump-next
             bookmark-in-project-jump-previous
             bookmark-in-project-delete-all)

  ;; Example key bindings.
  :bind (("M-n" . bookmark-in-project-jump-next)
         ("M-p" . bookmark-in-project-jump-previous)
         ("M-*" . bookmark-in-project-toggle)
         ("M-o" . bookmark-in-project-jump)))