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help-follow-symbol silent when no symbol was found

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 38248 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38248: help-follow-symbol silent when no symbol was found
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:40:15 +0100

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:25 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Rationale?

I quote from my original bug report:

Currently, help-follow and help-follow-mouse signal an error if there's
nothing to follow. However, help-follow-symbol does not, which means
that C-c C-c in the help buffer when over an arbitrary non-symbol does
nothing and says nothing.

That's not just inconsistent, but a bit disconcerting, as sometimes
following a symbol can be slow. In my build, it takes a second or more
to show the symbol documentation, so when there's no symbol I stand
waiting for something to happen for a couple of seconds.

> > +** help-follow-symbol now signals user-error if point (or the position
>
> user-error should be quoted 'like this'.

Ok.

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