Subject: bug#44894: Highly related line number articles should mention each other

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:39:08 +0800

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>> <[email-masked]>
>> 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.