Re: Why should interactive search results raise errors?

[Lennart Borgman]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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?
> >     
>
> I think the better answer is to create a new error class called `user-error'
> which would be then added to debug-ignored-errors.  Then we can replace most
> elements of debug-ignored-errors by changing the signalling code so as to
> signal a `user-error' rather than an `error'.
>
> But that's for post-22.
>
>
>         Stefan
>   
Yes, that is good.