From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: forward-paragraph return value Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49346.130.55.132.107.1282649410.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <4C72BD0A.8090104@online.de> <4C735C02.70804@online.de> <87y6bw5sb8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4C738D6D.5040805@online.de> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282649465 9284 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2010 11:31:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Andreas Schwab , Emacs developers To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 13:31:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnriO-0004f7-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:30:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Onri3-0002xj-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:30:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46470 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Onrhv-0002xa-33 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onrhp-0000pq-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from proofpoint1.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.25]:38239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onrhp-0000pW-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by proofpoint1 (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7OBU9Md022606; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:30:10 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558DA1A88A68; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:30:10 -0600 (MDT) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay2.lanl.gov Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421411A88A64; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:30:10 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by webmail1.lanl.gov (Postfix, from userid 48) id 4015C1CA8116; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:30:10 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from 130.55.132.107 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:30:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C738D6D.5040805@online.de> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5_4.10.lanl3 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.0.10011, 1.0.148, 0.0.0000 definitions=2010-08-24_06:2010-08-24, 2010-08-24, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129125 Archived-At: > 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 -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.