[mini.files] Can we delete bookmarks?

[GitMurf]

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Question

Is there a way to delete a single bookmark? Or delete / clear them all?

[echasnovski]

Not within 'mini.files' itself. Bookmarks are by design quite short lived: they are created only "per explorer". Instead, more persistent bookmarks are responsibility of the user.

In theory, set_bookmark() can allow empty string as path to mean "remove bookmark". Can you describe your use case, please?

[GitMurf]

Ok so maybe there is a misunderstanding with how it should work by default. I swear in the past whenever you closed MiniFiles the bookmarks would be lost. But now it seems to persist them until you restart Neovim. I am on latest nightly.

So I guess question 1 is whether that is expected or not? No sense me explaining more details of my use case if this is not expected.

[GitMurf]

But now it seems to persist them until you restart Neovim. I am on latest nightly.

This is how I typically open MiniFiles: MiniFiles.open(vim.api.nvim_buf_get_name(0), true)

[echasnovski]

That true makes it use the latest state of explorer, which contains bookmarks. If you use false, bookmarks are not created (unless they are created automatically).

[GitMurf]

If you use false, bookmarks are not created

Ahhh perfect! Because my use case is that I am grabbing bookmarks on close of MF and persisting to a global var (to persist between neovim open/close). And then on open of MF I am looping through my global var and explicitly setting the marks each time.

The problem I was having was I also have a keymap to clear / remove items from my global var but all the old bookmarks were still showing up until I restarted neovim.

Setting this to false should solve my problem! Thanks!