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(next|previous)-buffer silent about not switching

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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 22:07:35 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:56:42 +0100
> Cc: 38384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > We previously signaled user-error in situations where we couldn't
> > continue at all.  Your addition is in a situation where nothing
> > particularly bad happened, so from the POV of a caller, we are now
> > signaling a user-error gratuitously.  I'm bothered only by the change
> > whereby we signal a user-error with the purpose of attracting the
> > user's attention, not because we cannot continue.
> 
> I don't really see much difference.

Well, I do.

> Anyway, there's no point in arguing this; if you feel strongly that the last case should depend on
> called-interactively-p, I'll change it.

Please do, and thanks.

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