bug#43489: [PATCH] Don't signal scan-error when moving by sexp interactively

[Mattias Engdegård]

18 sep. 2020 kl. 17.23 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Still, I'm not sure whether a (ding) is more helpful than a non-cryptic
> user-error message in these instances.

That's a fair view, but my point is that we shouldn't put in a message unless 
we can honestly argue for its usefulness. In this case it seems difficult to do 
so given the evidence. It's not like every other editor is more difficult to 
use in this particular aspect.

Or put in another way: the absence of a message isn't necessarily cryptic. When 
the editor explains itself by the result of the user's action, a verbal message 
on top of it can make matters worse.

By the way, (ding) and (user-error "") seem more or less equivalent, in case 
one would be preferable.