Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:13:38 +0000
From: Gerard Vermeulen <gerard.vermeulen@posteo.net>
Hello,
The last "if" clause in the NOERROR part of the re-search-forward
docstring
is wrong.
It reads "if it is neither nil nor t, move to the limit of search and
return nil."
but if NOERROR equals neither nil nor t re-search-forward returns
the start position of the match (when found) or nil (when no match
found).
The full text of that part is as follows:
The optional third argument NOERROR indicates how errors are handled
when the search fails. If it is nil or omitted, emit an error; if
it is t, simply return nil and do nothing; if it is neither nil nor
t, move to the limit of search and return nil.
Note the first sentence of the paragraph: this entire paragraph
describes how NOERROR affects the case when the search _fails_. Thus,
the situation where the search succeeds is not relevant to the above
part of the doc string.
So I think this text is accurate and correct.