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Hi,

I saw your post on emacs-devel about this package. It looks like you've done a good job.

Of course, you're free to make your own tools to scratch your own itches. But I saw this part of the readme:

dogears or gumshoe: both of these packages are great, and this package is largely inspired by the two of these. however, i, personally, have no interest in using either time or distance as a signal for tracking positions. i am principally interested in:

support for position tracking in live and killed buffers
support for persisting the list of tracked positions between emacs sessions
well-defined navigation
allowing arbitrary functions to track the before and after positions around the call

And I wonder if Dogears could be enhanced to meet these needs. For example, the dogears-functions option lets you choose functions to be advised to remember a place when they are called. And according to alphapapa/dogears.el#4, savehist can be used to persist the dogears-list between sessions. Dogears already tracks positions in killed buffers by way of using Emacs bookmarks internally (so if the buffer's major mode has a bookmark-make-record-function, it can be recreated by Dogears after being killed).

And as for well-defined navigation: well, I see that you made this PR a while back: alphapapa/dogears.el#19 Apologies for overlooking it; it's been a busy year so far. FWIW, I just pushed some improvements to Dogears that you might find interesting. For example, the commands to remember a place and move forward/back take a prefix argument to only consider manually remembered places; so you can easily "dogear" or "drop a breadcrumb" at a place that's significant, and move between such places without having to go through all of the automatically remembered places too.

Anyway, I do, of course, wish you luck with your own package. But if Dogears could be made to suit your needs better, please let me know. I feel like Dogears isn't fulfilling its potential yet, and feedback from users could help.