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From: mcvax!emeraude.dedlpr.bull.fr!macrakis@UUNET.UU.NET (Stavros Macrakis)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Return value of goto-line
Message-ID: <8812261757.AA21998@emeraude.dedlpr.bull.fr>
Date: 26 Dec 88 17:57:02 GMT
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(Goto-line n) returns 0 in the case where it has moved to the
non-empty final line of the buffer numbered n-1.  This means that the
return value does not allow you to distinguish between normal success
and this special case.  This seems undesirable.