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

[Miles Bader]

Mark Lillibridge <address@hidden> writes:
>>  > => "should not be called from Elisp"?
>>  
>>  Oops, thanks,
>
> That's funny; the documentation for goto-line specifically talks about
> its behavior when called from elisp!

Well of course you _can_ call it from elisp, but still, many commands
can be thought of as being "user-oriented".  These are discouraged from
being used in elisp because they have things like side-effects and more
complicated DWIMy behavior that can be undesirable for programming.

However, occasionally, you want to call such commands anyway (e.g., when
you're writing a wrapper for them).

-Miles

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