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

[Stefan Monnier]

> * {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.


        Stefan