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

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:50:17 +0200

23 sep. 2020 kl. 18.37 skrev João Távora <[email-masked]>:

> Yes, but it is also unfortunate, as it makes debugging e.g.
> forward-sexp-function or scan-sexps harder.  That is 
> a side effect of this bug fix that I assert shouldn't have 
> come along in the bargain.

Sorry to hear that, but perhaps it's not quite that grave? After all, there's nothing unusual about commands that use lower-level functions in their implementation and need to catch errors raised by those functions.
Let's hope the person debugging isn't too much bothered by typing M-: (forward-sexp) instead of C-M-f, don't you think?