GNU bug report logs - #44894
Highly related line number articles should mention each other

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Highly related line number articles should mention each other
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:15:15 +0800

(info "(emacs) Optional Mode Line") says

      The current line number of point appears in the mode line when Line
   Number mode is enabled.  Use the command ‘M-x line-number-mode’ to turn
   this mode on and off; normally it is on.  The line number appears after
   the buffer percentage POS, with the letter ‘L’ to indicate what it is.

(info "(emacs) Display Custom")

      If you want to have Emacs display line numbers for every line in the
   buffer, customize the buffer-local variable ‘display-line-numbers’; it
   is ‘nil’ by default.  This variable can have several different values to
   support various modes of line-number display:

OK, but each should also mention

   By the way, see also ...

referring to the other!

emacs-version "27.1"

Message #10 received at 44894-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 44894-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44894: Highly related line number articles should mention each
 other
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:18:58 +0200

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>  <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:15:15 +0800
> 
> (info "(emacs) Optional Mode Line") says
> 
>       The current line number of point appears in the mode line when Line
>    Number mode is enabled.  Use the command ‘M-x line-number-mode’ to turn
>    this mode on and off; normally it is on.  The line number appears after
>    the buffer percentage POS, with the letter ‘L’ to indicate what it is.
> 
> (info "(emacs) Display Custom")
> 
>       If you want to have Emacs display line numbers for every line in the
>    buffer, customize the buffer-local variable ‘display-line-numbers’; it
>    is ‘nil’ by default.  This variable can have several different values to
>    support various modes of line-number display:
> 
> OK, but each should also mention
> 
>    By the way, see also ...
> 
> referring to the other!

They are unrelated features, although the use the same words.

Closing.

Message #13 received at 44894-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44894-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44894: Highly related line number articles should mention
 each other
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:39:08 +0800

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>> <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
>> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:15:15 +0800
>> 
>> (info "(emacs) Optional Mode Line") says
>> 
>> The current line number of point appears in the mode line when Line
>> Number mode is enabled.  Use the command ‘M-x line-number-mode’ to turn
>> this mode on and off; normally it is on.  The line number appears after
>> the buffer percentage POS, with the letter ‘L’ to indicate what it is.
>> 
>> (info "(emacs) Display Custom")
>> 
>> If you want to have Emacs display line numbers for every line in the
>> buffer, customize the buffer-local variable ‘display-line-numbers’; it
>> is ‘nil’ by default.  This variable can have several different values to
>> support various modes of line-number display:
>> 
>> OK, but each should also mention
>> 
>> By the way, see also ...
>> 
>> referring to the other!

EZ> They are unrelated features, although the use the same words.

EZ> Closing.

I would at least say on those pages "don't confuse this X with the
'unrelated' Y" then.

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