bug#38248: help-follow-symbol silent when no symbol was found

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:25 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Rationale?

I quote from my original bug report:

Currently, help-follow and help-follow-mouse signal an error if there's

nothing to follow. However, help-follow-symbol does not, which means

that C-c C-c in the help buffer when over an arbitrary non-symbol does

nothing and says nothing.

That's not just inconsistent, but a bit disconcerting, as sometimes

following a symbol can be slow. In my build, it takes a second or more

to show the symbol documentation, so when there's no symbol I stand

waiting for something to happen for a couple of seconds.

> > +** help-follow-symbol now signals user-error if point (or the position
>
> user-error should be quoted 'like this'.

Ok.