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

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 15:44, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

What I proposed is not removing that possibility, just making user n/w
and program n/w two different facilities; one is a user commodity, and
the other is (low or medium)-level infrastructure for elisp libraries.
That the two are conflated is the result of library auhors not having
other equally easy way to show selected parts of a buffer, I guess.

> More generally, we should not remove `widen' as a command, even if in only 
> some
> contexts. Likewise, `narrow'. What we should do is provide more user control
> (not less), possibly by creating a `widen-one-level' command as I suggested
> earlier.

No one has been proposing less user control.

    Juanma