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

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 43489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43489: [PATCH] Don't signal scan-error when moving by sexp interactively
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:36:52 +0300

On 21.09.2020 14:21, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> Other editors have structural movement commands although they may or may not behave identically.

Do they try to preserve the pairing of parentheses (or similar 
structures)? What do they say if the user tries to delete a closing 
delimiter without deleting the opening one?

> However, it is a common pattern almost everywhere else that verbal messages aren't displayed unless needed to convey useful information;

"We don't move point because of XXX" might be useful info, might it not?

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