interactive code "N"

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From: boris
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 1994 18:55

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In GNU Emacs 19.25.95.3 (sparc-sun-sunos4shr, X toolkit) of Mon Oct  3 1994 on moose.cs.rochester.edu

Interactive code "N" is documented unclearly.  In the doc string for
`interactive' it says "Prefix arg converted to a number...", but in
Info it says "The raw prefix arg...".

A related problem is that `C-u M-x goto-line' (which uses 
(interactive "NGoto line: ")) fails with the error "Wrong type
argument" and moves to the first line of the buffer; I would have
expected it to move to line 4. 

Bng

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