Your message dated Tue, 20 May 2014 12:48:35 -0700 (PDT)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #167141,
regarding emacs loses track of line numbers
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.2-5
Severity: minor
$ wget http://etc.cmu.edu/~lentz/chops/emacs-lineno-bug
$ emacs emacs-lineno-bug
If I hold the down arrow until the cursor reaches the bottom of the
file, the line number display at the bottom of the window changes to
"L??". It remains L?? even if I use goto-line or M-<.
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The example file contains very long lines.
As it says in the documentation of line-number-mode,
you'll need to increase the value of line-number-display-limit-width.
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