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

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:01:39 +0200

18 sep. 2020 kl. 17.23 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>:

> Still, I'm not sure whether a (ding) is more helpful than a non-cryptic
> user-error message in these instances.

That's a fair view, but my point is that we shouldn't put in a message unless we can honestly argue for its usefulness. In this case it seems difficult to do so given the evidence. It's not like every other editor is more difficult to use in this particular aspect.

Or put in another way: the absence of a message isn't necessarily cryptic. When the editor explains itself by the result of the user's action, a verbal message on top of it can make matters worse.

By the way, (ding) and (user-error "") seem more or less equivalent, in case one would be preferable.