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(forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
Cc: 64739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64739: (forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:39:21 +0300

> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:19:27 -0700
> From:  Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Given the following number with point at ★:
> 
> ★12.34
> 
> number-at-point correctly returns "12.34".
> 
> However,(forward-thing 'number) puts point just before the period:
> 
> 12★.34
> 
> while I'd expect:
> 
> 12.34★
> 
> (get 'number 'forward-op)
>      ⇒ forward-word
> 
> forward-word doesn't seem to be the correct forward-op for numbers.

That depends on the buffer's syntax table, though.

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