Subject: RE: bug#8634: 24.0.50; `number-at-point' returns char value for `?' constructs - 1) doc, 2) new fns

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 20:06:42 -0800 (PST)

> I just tried saying the same in the *scratch* buffer, and there it
> returns 65!
> 
> Here in the Message buffer it returns nil.  It does in a
> fundamental-mode buffer, too...

Sounds like we might be getting somewhere now.  Something in
certain buffers causes `number-at-point' to do the wrong thing.