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

[Juri Linkov]

> 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/