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bug#43489: [PATCH] Don't signal scan-error when moving by sexp interacti


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#43489: [PATCH] Don't signal scan-error when moving by sexp interactively
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:49:56 +0300
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On 21.09.2020 20:12, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
"We don't move point because of XXX" might be useful info, might it not?
So one might think, but there's an opportunity cost. If the user understands 
what's going on (from context, behaviour etc) without a textual message, then 
that message is of negative value. In other words, the user would be better off 
without it.

Could be.

Although if we managed to come up with more reasonable messages, and keep the buffer position numbers in them, the result might be both friendlier and more helpful.

Though admittedly most of the benefit will come in, again, debugging situations.





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