Re: forward-paragraph return value

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 24.08.2010 13:30, schrieb Davis Herring:
> > 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
>
>    

Example mentioned was search-forward. It sends all the info you need.