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Will KeyNote ever support bookmarks?

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Will KeyNote ever support bookmarks?

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Not really. I’ve added a very basic bookmark support (version 0.974 upwards). But these bookmarks are dumb – they only mark an absolute location in the editor (“the 520th character from the start”), not a part of the actual text. If you add or remove text BEFORE a bookmark, the bookmark will stay in place and won’t point to the original text anymore. There is absolutely no practical way this could be done any better – because to have real bookmarks, KeyNote would have to recalculate the positions of all bookmarks each time you press a key (add a letter, press the Delete key, paste or cut text, etc). This is possible in theory, but in practice it would result in horribly complex and SLOW code. Also, the RTF editor doesn’t have the concept of a gutter, so there’s no space in which to display the bookmarks – they’re invisible. As a matter of comparison, MS Word solves the problem neatly – by inserting a character into the text at the bookmark position. However, (a) Word’s bookmarks aren’t

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