Emacs Elements has a new video on bookmarks out. I’ve written about bookmarks before—most recently here—but it bears repeating how useful they can be. I don’t have a huge bookmark list but I use those bookmarks several times a day. I hate entering long file paths or, worse, trying to remember them. Bookmarks eliminates all that. They can even remember where you were in a file so it’s easy to bookmark specific parts of specific files.
As the video points out, all the keybindings for bookmarks start with Ctrl+x r, which is the same prefix used for registers. Some people find the overloading of Ctrl+x r confusing. Emacs Elements’ suggested solution is to rebind those keys. My solution is to use a hydra to jump to bookmarks and let which-key remind me of the rest after I type the Ctrl+x r prefix.
For me, the most useful part of the video was a link to his previous video on Bookmarks+. That’s what I use and have for a long time. Among other things it allows you to bookmark Websites, which can be really useful. If you’re using bookmarks, and you should be, you should definitely take a look at Bookmarks+. You should also take a look at abo-abo’s headlong-bookmark-jump to make choosing bookmarks easy.