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

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > For the same reason that the narrowing stack that Drew
>> > proposes could be useful: if I'm reading an Info node, my
>> > narrowing/widening shouldn't interfere with the use of narrowing
>> > by Info-mode, because that's just an artifact of its
>> > implementation. Being able to do M-x widen in an Info node
>> > and seeing the whole buffer is IMO a "bug"
>> > because it destroys the abstraction.
>>
>> I agree that user commands (with the prefix map `C-x n') should not
>> widen or narrow the Info buffer outside of the current Info node.
>> Only some low-level functions should be allowed to do this.
>
> 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.


I think Juri sugggested that there should not be an interactive
command for doing that. Would not low level elisp functions be enough
for the purpose of widening Info buffers?