From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: herring@lanl.gov
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: forward-paragraph return value
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:57:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C73FA07.8070001@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49346.130.55.132.107.1282649410.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>
Am 24.08.2010 13:30, schrieb Davis Herring:
>> Its clean and much more reliable, as beg will be nil, if nothing was
>> found.
>>
> If (forward-paragraph 10) can only advance past 7 paragraphs, has it
> failed or not? And how is the caller to know that what they asked for was
> impossible if it merely returns (point-end) or so?
>
> Davis
>
>
Example mentioned was search-forward. It sends all the info you need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 18:25 forward-paragraph return value Andreas Röhler
2010-08-23 20:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-08-24 5:43 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-24 8:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-24 9:14 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-08-24 11:30 ` Davis Herring
2010-08-24 16:57 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2010-08-24 12:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-24 17:10 ` Andreas Röhler
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