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Subject: thing-at-point: inconsistent behaviour?
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Hello there,

the documentation of `thing-at-point' states that such function returns "the
thing around or next to point".  This is not the case with either 
(thing-at-point
'symbol) or (thing-at-point 'sexp), for they both may return the thing 
before
point.  Try it with the following snippet (! symbolizes the point):

A!
(A)!

On the contrary, (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'list) returns nil as 
expected in this
snippet:

(A)!

Is this inconsistent behaviour or am I missing something?

Tested on GNU Emacs 24.1 started with "emacs -Q".

Thank you.