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26.0.50; number-at-point

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 24969 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24969: 26.0.50; number-at-point
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:18:12 +0200

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> After evaluating show-number in buffer of contents below, it should
> jump to char "1" and return them, but returns nil.
>
> ;;;
>
> foo-1
>
> (defun show-number ()
>   (interactive)
>   (goto-char 5)
>   (message "%s" (number-at-point)))

This has returned -1 since Emacs 26.1 (it used to return nil), and I
think -1 is fine here (since we've asked for a number, and that's a
kinda numberish thing).  (I also see the logic in returning nil in Lisp
buffers, but number-at-point is a DWIM-ish command.)

So I think this works as it's supposed, and I'm closing this bug report.

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