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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com,  8634@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 17:04:57 -0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Are you saying that "M-: (number-at-point) RET" with point at ?A says
>> > "nil"?
>> 
>> Yes.
>
> Then we must be using a very different Emacs, or maybe the recipe is
> not what I think it is.  For me, it still says "65", FWIW.

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...

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number-at-point is an autoloaded compiled Lisp function in
`thingatpt.el'.

(number-at-point)

Return the number at point, or nil if none is found.


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