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 18:22:04 +0100

On 04.11.2016 21:03, Drew Adams wrote:
> Sorry, but I confused things further, I'm afraid.
>
> `thing-at-point' should always return a string.

Indeed. Which would require some normalization WRT number-at-point etc.

> `list-at-point', `form-at-point', etc. are a different
> story - they can return anything.

Interesting question. Maybe returns the symbol if found - nil otherwise?