On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:09 AM Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > marc wrote:
> >  > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 9:20 AM Marc Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > It looks like :show-marks (or :marks, :list-marks) erroneously
> >  > > displays '(none)' for buffers that have one or more marks.
> >  >
> >  > I only just noticed the most significant part of this problem:
> >  >
> >  >     Named marks for [Named Marks]
> >  >     (none)
> >  >
> >  > i.e., :marks is listing marks for its own buffer, not the buffer that
> >  > was being edited.
> >  >
> >
> > I think it's because the [Named Marks] buffer is current.  If you
> > switch back to your edit buffer, the [Named Marks] buffer updates
> > correctly.
> 
> Confirmed here too; thanks Paul.
> 
> > So it seems like :show-marks buffer is being made current,
> > when it shouldn't be.
> 
> Agreed.

hmm - I probably should review the various commands which create buffers
to see if there's other stuff to fix (or possibly add a mode to control
the behavior).

> Sidenote/related: It also looks like marks in the [Named Marks] buffer
> are ignored, even though the "[Mark 'x' set]" is displayed.  If this
> is intentional, then perhaps that message should be suppressed or
> changed.

thanks (on my to-do list)

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