Renaming bookmarks

[engeir]

I am currently trying to write a python script using the sioyek package to rename bookmarks, also discussed in this issue. It feels like it should not be too hard, but I struggle to figure out how to find the closest bookmark.

That is, I assume the delete_bookmark command will always delete whichever bookmark is closer, so the idea would be to first find the closest bookmark, copy the description, delete it and insert a new bookmark where the description is copied into the insert field.

One caveat to this is that add_bookmark in sioyek opens an input field, while either of the following three lines will just create new bookmarks without the option to specify the bookmark name/description.

Sioyek().add_bookmark("this is a bookmark made from sioyek python iterface")
subprocess.run([SIOYEK_PATH, "--execute-command", "add_bookmark"])
subprocess.run([SIOYEK_PATH, "--execute-command", "add_bookmark", "--execute-command-data",  "this is a bookmark made from command line"])

Any tips on how to move forward with this?

[ahrm]

Unfortunately, in the current version of sioyek there is no way to fill in a text input from python without executing the command. It will be available in the next version though.

[engeir]

I noticed that calling the add_bookmark command after having copied text inside sioyek (i.e. with <C-c>) this text was inserted in the text field and can be edited.

So, as a workaround for now, would finding the closest bookmark, copy the text and then deleting it be possible? Because in this case I suppose it would be possible to right after call add_command manually in sioyek and then have the deleted bookmark description available.

EDIT:
Ah, it was just because I did not remove the highlight of the text I just copied before calling add_bookmark. So the copying had nothing to do with it after all.