Subject: Re: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' returns error when called with arguments 'number t)

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:31:36 +0100

On 04.11.2016 17:31, Drew Adams wrote:
> Tino is right.  The mistake behind the handling of optional arg
> NO-PROPERTIES (which was added in Emacs 24.4) is to assume that
> `thing-at-point' returns a string.  This is a common misconception.
> It can return anything that Emacs Lisp can return.

Is there a need to pick symbols from a buffer as symbols?
Don't know. My use-case is editing and strings are the suitable format.