From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: forward-paragraph return value
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:59:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24oelyrhu.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C72BD0A.8090104@online.de> ("Andreas Röhler"'s message of "Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:25:14 +0200")
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
> `forward-paragraph' presently returns "0" if the number of steps given by
> ARG is completed. It's code ends with:
>
> ;; Return the number of steps that could not be done.
> arg))
Which makes it similar to forward-line.
> IMHO buffer-position reached is a more useful return value.
Which you can get with (point). So what's the point?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-23 20:59 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 [this message]
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
2010-08-24 12:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-24 17:10 ` Andreas Röhler
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