Subject: 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: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:19:46 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:27:43 +0200
> 
> >> 3. Leave the existing 'M-g g' bound to goto-line, but allow changing
> >>    the numbering scheme using a prefix arg and a user option.
> >
> > I like this the best.
> 
> If making the current goto-line 'M-g g' more DWIM is not easy to do,
> maybe really a user option could help with such choices:
> 
> - always use absolute line numbers;
> - always use relative line numbers;
> - follow the value of display-line-numbers-widen;
> ...

That's also a possibility, but I think "M-1 M-g g" would still be
useful, even with these options, because sometimes the need in
narrow-relative line numbers is a one-time thing.