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

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:21:51 -0700 (PDT)

> > 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.
> 
> Of course there is.  And not just symbols, but numbers, lists...

Sorry for the confusion.  I was thinking of `list-at-point' etc.,
and not `thing-at-point', which always returns a string (or it
should, at least - see my previous msg).