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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, dmoncayo@gmail.com,
>         9917@debbugs.gnu.org, 5042@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> My point is that a user can want _either_ behavior,
> and there's no way to know which behavior is wanted
> at any given moment, in any given buffer, whether
> narrowed or not.
> 
> IMO, we need either two different commands (& keys)
> or a command with different prefix-arg behaviors.

I suggested the former up-thread (and thought that your response meant
you are unhappy about that for some reason).  Different prefix-arg
behaviors would be tricky in this case, I think, because goto-line
accepts a numeric argument already.