Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com> writes:

> reopen 71374
> quit
>
> Hi Philip,
>
> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> I hadn't pushed the change, have done so now.  Closing the report.
>> Thanks for the reminder.
>
> I'm reopening this (hope you don't mind) to keep track of the minor
> regressions I mentioned here:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-07/msg01202.html

Thanks, and my apologies for the late reply.

The issue seems to be that (thing-at-point 'sexp) returns nil if inside
a s-expression looking at whitespace:

(1 2     3 4 5)
     ^
     M-: (thing-at-point 'sexp) ;=> nil

One idea is to fall back on a defun at point, if no sexp is found: