Subject: Re: bug#12691: 24.1; thing-at-point list of possible symbols

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:12:26 -0400

Chong Yidong wrote:

> Jerome Truong <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Not a bug, just a suggestion to add `number' to the list of symbols so
>> it's readily know to coders that number-at-point is available.
>
> OK, done.  Thanks.

I don't think he meant quite what you installed, since
(thing-at-point 'number) doesn't work AFAICS.
I think he mean "the function number-at-point also exists".

Cf evalling

(thing-at-point 'number)4 
(number-at-point)4

The former returns nil, the latter `4'.