bug#47677: [PATCH] condition-case success continuation

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> It may be a bit too far over the moon though. Would
> :not-a-complete-failure be better? Fits my gloomy national
> temperaments (all of them) better.

:-)

I like :success here.  Let's bring some positivity.  And I also like
the feature -- you sometimes see people doing

(condition-case
  (progn
    (something-that-may-fail)
    (setq didnt-fail t))
  (error ...))
(when didnt-fail
  ...)

and this would be much nicer.

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