bug#14234: 24.3; symbol-at-point fails in (very) narrowed buffers

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> writes:

> If buffer is narrowed to non-symbol text, symbol-at-point returns the
> whole content whatever is that.
>
> To reproduce: Create a new buffer "test.txt" add `[[`( at the beginning
> and run (symbol-at-point). It wrongly gives the whole content. Now put
> "aa `[[`(" and place your cursor at [; symbol-at-point returns nil as
> expected.
>
> This probably has to do with the thing-at-point relying on forward-thing
> and backward-thing which, in this case, return eob and bob respectively.

Yup.  This should now be fixed in Emacs 28.

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