5.2.1 Bookmarks Install ¶

To install Casual Bookmarks, add the following line to your Emacs initialization file with your binding of preference.

(keymap-set bookmark-bmenu-mode-map "C-o" #'casual-bookmarks-tmenu)

Use these keybindings to configure the bookmark list to be consistent with keybindings used by Casual Bookmarks.

(keymap-set bookmark-bmenu-mode-map "J" #'bookmark-jump)

Casual Bookmarks also includes the keymap casual-bookmarks-main-menu which inserts a Bookmarks menu into the main menu bar as shown below.

To enable this, add the following configuration to your initialization file.

(require 'casual-bookmarks)
(easy-menu-add-item global-map '(menu-bar)
                    casual-bookmarks-main-menu
                    "Tools")

While not necessary, having the current bookmark highlighted is convenient. Enable hl-line-mode for the bookmark list as shown below.

(require 'hl-line)
(add-hook 'bookmark-bmenu-mode-hook #'hl-line-mode)

Finally, customize the variable bookmark-save-flag to the value 1 to ensure that your bookmark changes are always saved.

The above guidance largely extends the work done in the blog post Using Bookmarks in Emacs like you do in Web Browsers.