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Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> Some interactive search functions raise errors when no hit is
> found. It is quite annoyning if you have set debug-on-error to t. Is
> there any reason why this functions raises errors in this cases? Can
> that be used for anything?
>
> An example is the function in the menu bar: Edit - Search - String
> Forward. As far as I can see this in only meant to be run
> interactively. The same goes for viper-search-next.
>
> It would in my opinion be more convenient if these functions just
> return nil and showed a message when a search fails. Would it not be a
> good convention for interactive search functions in Emacs?

Probably the better thing to do is to add the error to
debug-ignored-errors.