GNU bug report logs - #9917
24.0.90; Make `goto-line' consistent with the line number from the minibuffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:34:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 5042, 16173

Found in versions 24.0.90, 24.3.50

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-06/msg00143.html

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 5042 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 9917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#9917: bug#5042: bug#9917: 24.0.90; Make `goto-line' consistent with the line number from the minibuffer
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:40:17 +0300

> That Info uses narrowing for this special purpose might be seen as
> a kludge.

Indeed, Info narrowing is an implementation detail irrelevant for most users.
And BTW Info-mode is the only mode that sets widen-automatically to nil.

Now I pushed this change to the trunk because two maintainers confirmed that
this is the right thing to do.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 225 days ago.

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