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

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Message #17 received at 43489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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 16:48:40 +0300

On 18.09.2020 16:42, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 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.)

Some translation to better-looking messages would be an improvement, for 
sure.

Up until now, M-x forward-sexp behaved the same as (forward-sexp 1), so 
I'd guess there are some Lisp developers used to that.

It's not a very strong objection, though.

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