Re: goto-line-history should not be buffer local.

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Rolf.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 01:26:56 +0100, Rolf Ade wrote:

> Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:

> > Who are the people who would set the option back to buffer local
> > history?

> I will do. (Would prefer it's the default.)

> What meaning have a certain line number from one buffer in another
> buffer?

When, for example, you accidentally run goto-line in the wrong buffer.
When you switch to the buffer you wanted, you don't want to have to type
in the whole line number again.

When you have several versions of the same file, which happens in SW
development, you may want to goto-line to the same position in a
different version, in a different buffer.

A third case, which is what got on my nerves last weekend, is when you
are repeatedly killing a buffer and loading the same file again, so as
to clear caches, and so on.  You want to go to the same place at each
new loading, so as to do testing.

I'm curious as to why somebody would want buffer local goto-line
history.  How often does one repeat the same goto-line in the same
buffer, and how does a buffer local history help?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).