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Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042]
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:29:21 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> IMO Juri did, by saying that user narrowing and widening commands
>> should not go beyond the current Info node.
>
> Again, user commands in the C-x n prefix map. And I would agree with
> that. Even if it is sometimes (how often?) useful to be able to widen
> the restriction in an Info buffer, that restriction is a programming
> convenience for Info-mode (that it uses narrowing is an implementation
> detail), so Info-mode should offer the way to deactivate it.
Yes, this is what I meant. The primitive function `widen' should
remove narrowing from the whole buffer completely as it currently does.
But a new user command `widen-command' bound to `C-x n w' should not
remove narrowing that was created programmatically, not by a user command
like `C-x n n'.
When authors of some mode decide that users should be able to remove
narrowing from the whole buffer completely then this mode should provide
a special command to do that.
And indeed, Info mode already has such a command. It is `g * RET'
that is documented in (info "(info) Go to node") as:
The node name `*' specifies the whole file. So you can look at all
of the current file by typing `g*<RET>' or all of any other file with
`g(FILENAME)*<RET>'.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], (continued)
- 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, 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], 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 <=
- 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
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Mark Lillibridge, 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], Lennart Borgman, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Mark Lillibridge, 2010/04/21
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], David Kastrup, 2010/04/22
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/22