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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> 18 sep. 2020 kl. 17.23 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>
>> 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.

The movement commands Emacs has here are more complicated than most
editors have, though.  Saying why `C-M-f' can't move seems like useful
information for the user to receive.

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