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

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:00:47 +0800

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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'.

Thanks for spotting this.  This is just an omission in thingatpt.el, I
think.  I added `number-at-point' as value of the `thing-at-point'
property for `number'.