Re: Why should interactive search results raise errors?

[Lennart Borgman]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     I still believe that interactive search commands should not raise 
>     errors. However I think adding these commands now to 
>     debug-ingnored-errors is the better solution now. Could we please do 
>     that now?
>
> I see no reason to change this.  Lots of commands signal errors when
> they can't do what they are asked to do; why shouldn't these?
If I want to see if there is any hits at all then a failed search is not 
an error. It gives me the information I wanted - whether there are hits 
or not. Why should then this be an error?