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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:11:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: 44894 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44894: 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"
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 173 days ago.

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