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[PATCH] Don't signal scan-error when moving by sexp interactively

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Message #14 received at 43489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 43489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43489: [PATCH] Don't signal scan-error when moving by sexp
 interactively
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:42:45 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

>>>   Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 5010, 5010
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>   Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 5010, 1
>>>
>>> which is unhelpful and rather looks as if something went wrong in the
>>> internal machinery.
>> Yes, those error messages are confusing in interactive usage.
>
> They might be kinda helpful for interactive debugging, though?

They don't seem like user-level error messages (as you'd expect from a
command like `C-M-f'), and if you're debugging, you're probably calling
`M-: (forward-sexp 1)' or something?  (In which case you get these error
messages still with the patch in question.)

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