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In GNU Emacs 18.55.4 of Tue Mar 20 1990 on nericad (berkeley-unix)

I have been unable to find any rule of thumb of when the argument
is optional and when its compulsory in the basic motion commands.

I'm lazy so whenever the arg is optional I leave it out. That gives me
problems for some commands in the same "group" which has compulsory args
and so far I havent managed to learn them by heart.

For example: 
forward-char, beginning-of-line, forward-line, forward-list, forward-sexp
has optional args,
(The reference manual 1.02 doesnt mention that forward-list and forward-sexp
has optional args)

            but
forward-word, up-list, down-list, next-line has compulsory args.

I think this is an inconsistency that at least disturbes me in my
programming. I think it should be corrected, but I'm aware of that it may 
affect many of the existing eLisp packages.

Jonas Jaernestroem              email:  etxjojm@ericad.ericsson.se
Ericsson Telecom STOCKHOLM