Subject: bug#48511: 26.3; Doc string of `global-display-line-numbers-mode'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 15:04:05 +0300

tags 48511 wontfix
close 48511
thanks

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 22:25:28 +0000
> 
> The Emacs manual, node `Display Custom' says this:
> 
>   The command 'M-x display-line-numbers-mode' provides a convenient way
>   to turn on display of line numbers.  This mode has a globalized variant,
>   'global-display-line-numbers-mode'.  The user option
>   'display-line-numbers-type' controls which sub-mode of line-number
>   display, described above, will these modes activate.
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> [...]
> 
> Please add the same or similar text about this option to the doc string
> of the global mode function as you have in the doc string of the local
> mode.

I don't agree that we should bloat the doc strings (and thus the Emacs
memory footprint) because some user failed to follow a link that
already exists.  That's a slippery slope I'd rather we don't take.

Closing.