GNU bug report logs - #38384
(next|previous)-buffer silent about not switching

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:09:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38384: (next|previous)-buffer silent about not switching
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:04:19 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:00:35 +0100
> Cc: 38384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> After a cursory glance, I find only one instance of (next-buffer) called from elisp in our sources, and it's in
> mode-line-next-buffer.  And in that case, clicking on the buffer name in the modeline and getting a message
> "no next buffer" seems like an improvement to me over the silent treatment ;-)

Granted, I'm worried mainly about code outside of the Emacs tree.
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