Launching Special bookmarks

While shortcut keys can be assigned on any bookmark, hlg has a short list of special bookmarks that will not be assigned shortcut keys.

These special bookmarks attain their status because of the properties on these bookmarks. For example,

  • The main home bookmark is special because this is the default bookmark launched when no bookmark name is passed to hl,g which means it has the highest priority in the database across all the categories;

  • A bookmark flagged as a category home bookmark is special because this is the default bookmark launched when no other bookmark name is passed as an argument;

  • A bookmark which you last visited is special because you can easily choose to launch it with the hlg - rather than re-entering the whole bookmark name; and

  • A bookmark marked as “favorite” is special because no other bookmark, beside the marked bookmark, has that status.

In fact, for any category, hlg will raise an error if you have more than one bookmark in the category marked as “favorite” or “home bookmark.” You can only have one of these.

These special bookmarks have default shortcut keys. The keys used are just symbols, as you would see in the table below.

In most cases, the way you save a special bookmark in the database is the same you retrieve it, except for the category home bookmark. The category home bookmark uses a * to flag it, yet it is launched by a . (the dot symbol.)

The following table shows all the special symbols used to launch special bookmarks.

Table 1. Special Bookmarks and how they are launched
key Bookmark to be launched

.

Default category home bookmark

-

The last visited bookmark

+

The flagged or favorite bookmark

?

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