From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 15117@debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#15117: 24.3.50; doc of `(forward|backward)-*': state return value
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:26:18 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8737a30-de76-4654-8fdd-2f66a8690b0d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<831tz9tsy2.fsf@gnu.org>>
> > 2. I guess you want a separate bug report for fixing the other
> > functions themselves, so they return something useful.
>
> It deserves a separate discussion, but I'm not sure their current
> non-values constitute a bug. There's nothing wrong in returning
> nil.
It's an enhancement request - or it will be: Return a useful value
when possible, for motion functions.
> In any case, each function should be discussed separately, because
> the fact that the name starts with "forward-" says nothing about
> possible useful values it could return.
The set of candidate functions for enhancement are motion functions.
Yes, each needs to be checked in detail. That should not mean that
a separate enhancement request is needed for each function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-11 18:26 UTC|newest]
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2014-02-11 18:14 ` bug#15117: 24.3.50; doc of `(forward|backward)-*': state return value Drew Adams
2014-02-11 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-02-11 18:26 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-08-17 15:59 Drew Adams
2014-02-08 5:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10 0:12 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10 2:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10 2:45 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-10 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-11 1:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-02-11 6:40 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-11 1:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-11 6:43 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-11 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-11 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-11 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-11 18:42 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-02-11 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-11 19:13 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-11 19:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-02-11 17:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-11 2:52 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-11 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-11 10:52 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-02-11 11:16 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-02-11 12:10 ` Andreas Röhler
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