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

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:30:24 +0100

On 04.11.2016 21:21, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> 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).

AFAIU the symbol-at-point-as-symbol idea and thing-at-point are two 
different conceptions.

BTW can't see a use-case of form-at-point for know - while having some 
in mind ;)

Thanks,
Andreas