Hi there,

I have been using 26.1 as my main editor for the last few months and
this breakage remains a pain point in my day-to-day editing. For example
whenever I rewrite a function, I normally comment out the old one (to
keep the linter, pretty-printer or whatnot happy) and write the new one
from scratch, occasionally copy things from the old one to save typing
and this bug gets in the way many times a day. I propose a patch that
doesn't divert too much from the old and tried behaviour.

The idea that is currently in thing-at-point-bounds-of-list-at-point is
fine for a higher level function such as list-at-point but doing it
there affects all functions that build on it including some from
thingatpt.el itself.

I hope you can find time to review the patch and come to a solution for
26.2 which I very much look forward to.

Thanks,
Leo