Subject: bug#5042: bug#9917: bug#5042: bug#9917: 24.0.90; Make `goto-line' consistent with the line number from the minibuffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:14:29 +0300

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>  [email-masked]
> 
> > 3.2. 'goto-line-relative' is bound in Info mode to `M-g M-g'.
> 
> I gave my opinion about this.  And it was a reason given
> for having two different commands: Do not base which
> command gets the standard key binding on anything to do
> with the current context - in particular, on whether the
> buffer is narrowed.
> 
> Please do _not_ bind `M-g M-g' to anything different in Info.

Why not?  We do this kind of thing -- have mode-specific bindings --
all the time in Emacs.

> Emacs should not be second-guessing users about this.

It's not second-guessing.  Info shows narrowed line numbers in its
buffers, so from the user POV the key sequence keeps invoking the same
command.

I see no problem and don't see why you object so much.