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Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042]
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:50:45 +0200 |
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> That's going too far, IMO. As Eli will perhaps point out (see bug #5839),
> there
> are reasons that some users will want to widen Info buffers.
I think Juri sugggested that there should not be an interactive
command for doing that. Would not low level elisp functions be enough
for the purpose of widening Info buffers?
- RE: widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers], (continued)
- RE: widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers], Leo, 2010/04/19
- RE: widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers], Drew Adams, 2010/04/19
- Re: widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers], Leo, 2010/04/19
- RE: widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers], Drew Adams, 2010/04/19
- Re: widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers], Leo, 2010/04/22
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/17
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/17
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juri Linkov, 2010/04/18
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042],
Lennart Borgman <=
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], David Kastrup, 2010/04/18
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juri Linkov, 2010/04/18
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18