Re: Info file in emacs.gives Lisp error: (beginning-of-buffer) (end-of-buffer)

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 11:04 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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> Subject: Re: Info file in emacs.gives Lisp error: (beginning-of-buffer) 
> (end-of-buffer)
>
> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > Have the point moving to the top of the buffer should not
> > really be considered an error. I agree that nil is not
> > a very good choice. too
>
> Well, Emacs is from 1976. People were thinking of it like
> programmers. That's actually part of the appeal, even now.

Seems everything got started the same way.  From a fuckup. :)

> In the user experience sense, it isn't an error, no.
> People aren't computers, thanks heaven.

Wouldn't that make it even worse? :)

> But luckily, this computer/programmer/user discrepancy, which
> is unavoidable if one wants to have a common interface, this
> particular situation is very easy to solve ... even/especially
> with programming!
>
> And the solution spells ... *drumroll* ...
>
> debug-ignored-errors !

I really needed to think there.

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