Subject: bug#21391: 24.5; `thing-at-point' should return a string

From: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:15:28 +0900 (JST)

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> On 07.11.2016 22:02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Didn't the function behave that way for quite some time?  If so, how
>> come it's suddenly a problem?
>
> Someone tried to use it for the first time?
I started to use it ~ 1 year ago.

I want to recall that the manual says that this function
returns _always_ a string:
Return the @var{thing} around or next to point, as a string.
(see at: doc/lispref/text.texi (Buffer Contents)

But as you know, that is not true if
(get thing 'thing-at-point)

returns a non-nil value.