> I don't understand the `noerror' argument to
re-search-forward, when it is
> `t'. For some kinds of errors it works, but I still get stack-overflow
> errors signaled, instead of the function returning nil. The
doc string and
> Elisp manual simply say that `noerror'=t returns nil in case of error.
If you expect it should return nil even in the case of a bad argument,
I don't think that was the intention. In fact I'd be complaining if it
did work that way. A wrapper is definitely necessary to get that level
of safety.
I realize now that it is the doc (in particular, Info) that is not clear
enough (for me). It should clearly state that it returns nil (for NOERROR=t)
when a match is not found, instead of saying that it does so when the
"function fails".
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