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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> goto-line already takes a prefix arg to mean a different buffer,
> which is useful in the resulting *Shell Command Output* buffer, so I
> guess I need to roll my own goto-line-in-narrowed-buffer command that
> just omits the call to (widen).  :-(
This would be quite useful in many situations I believe. One such 
situations is editing part of a buffer in another mode in a cloned 
buffer narrowed to this part (multi-mode.el does this I think).

Why not include both variants in Emacs?