Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:57:26 -0700
> From: Mark Lillibridge <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden
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>     What do other people think?  I'm reluctant to try and make such a
> major change as thus without more input.

I wanted to provide some input, but found I'm unable to do that,
because the proposed change is not described in enough detail, and in
particular the description uses terminology it never explains.  What
are these two ``kinds'' of restriction you are talking about, and how
are they relevant to the issue at hand, which is how to number lines
when a buffer is narrowed?

IOW, the initial message you posted here 2 months ago was clear, but
then you switched into a domain where I cannot follow you.

TIA