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From: | Juri Linkov |
Subject: | Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] |
Date: | Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:05:52 +0300 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> For the same reason that the narrowing stack that Drew proposes could > be useful: if I'm reading an Info node, my narrowing/widening > shouldn't interfere with the use of narrowing by Info-mode, because > that's just an artifact of its implementation. Being able to do M-x > widen in an Info node and seeing the whole buffer is IMO a "bug" > because it destroys the abstraction. I agree that user commands (with the prefix map `C-x n') should not widen or narrow the Info buffer outside of the current Info node. Only some low-level functions should be allowed to do this. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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