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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> * {esc}g currently calls goto-line, but a grep through the elisp sources
>>   of Emacs shows a lots of calls to goto-line, any of which might be
>>   broken by changing the behavior of goto-line
>
> Grep counts 8 such calls only.  Doesn't seem unmanageable at all.
>
>> * Accordingly, I suggest introducing a new function, goto-numbered-line,
>>   which will replace the binding of {esc}g and the edit menu option.
>
> goto-line is already marked as "should only be called from Elisp", so
> introducing goto-numbered-line doesn't sound right.

=> "should not be called from Elisp"?