Subject: bug#14234: 24.3; symbol-at-point fails in (very) narrowed buffers

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:49:27 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

>> This probably has to do with the thing-at-point relying on forward-thing
>> and backward-thing which, in this case, return eob and bob respectively.
>
> Yup.  This should now be fixed in Emacs 28.

I had to revert, because my fix didn't do the right thing with point
after a symbol.  I've now added a bunch of tests for this function.

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