(address . bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
Currently, the bookmark fringe icon is a circle. However, Emacs already
uses a circle to represent breakpoints (as do a lot of other IDEs).
These are usually a different color, but I think it would be nice if the
bookmark fringe icon were a different shape too. This would help
colorblind users, since (depending on their Emacs theme and what kind of
colorblindness they have), it might be hard to distinguish the bookmark
icon from the breakpoint icon.
It would help make the purpose of the indicator more obvious to users
who don't directly use bookmarks. Some packages (including the built-in
org-capture package) set bookmarks automatically, and a user might not
realize that the dot indicates a bookmark, as opposed to some other thing.
Attached are some screenshots showing before/after, plus a patch for
this. I converted the string definition of the bitmap to a vector of
(binary) numbers, since then a reader can see the shape of the icon if
they look carefully.
From 0671b44808a07237a1c183e80c7ba713255c9ee8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 11:40:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make the bookmark fringe icon look like a bookmark
* lisp/bookmark.el (bookmark-fringe-mark): Change the bitmap to look
like a bookmark.
---
lisp/bookmark.el | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/lisp/bookmark.el b/lisp/bookmark.el
index 30a03e0431..53da501316 100644
--- a/lisp/bookmark.el
+++ b/lisp/bookmark.el
@@ -483,7 +483,14 @@ bookmark-history
"The history list for bookmark functions.")
(define-fringe-bitmap 'bookmark-fringe-mark
- "\x3c\x7e\xff\xff\xff\xff\x7e\x3c")
+ [#b01111110
+ #b01111110
+ #b01111110
+ #b01111110
+ #b01111110
+ #b01111110
+ #b01100110
+ #b01000010])
(defun bookmark--set-fringe-mark ()
"Apply a colorized overlay to the bookmarked location.
--
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