(re-search-forward ... <point t)

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From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 21:44

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GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Tue Oct 31 1989 on marat (hpux)

Should search_command raise "Invalid search bound (wrong side of
point)" even when noerror is t?

It means that instead of:

	 (while (re-search-forward thing bound t)
	   ...do some stuff, possibly moving point ... )

you have to write:

	(while (and (< (point) bound)
		    (re-search-forward thing bound t))
	  ...do some stuff, possibly moving point ... )

or

	(save-restriction
	  (narrow...
	   (while ...

Can you think of an example where giving the error is a win?

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