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

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:35:56 +0200

> Because depending on the use of narrow-to-region, you'll want widen
> or not.  Some code was written with some particular uses in mind, while
> other code was written with other uses in mind, hence
> the inconsistencies.

Yes, I can confirm this: when someone says "see the line 42 in window.c"
then `goto-line' should visit by the absolute line number, ignoring any
narrowing in effect.  But when someone says "see the line 42 in the Info
node" then it should be relative to the node's beginning.