On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 9:43 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> That's a possibility, but you may find that some Lisp code somewhere
> assumes line-numbers are ON in a temporary buffer, e.g. because it
> wants to measure something that is directly related to line-numbers.

That's kind of unlikely, and if it happens, using your own reasoning that
Lisp code should set line-numbers explicitly.