Please, omit this bug report. I forgot to change the temporary title I had initially written. I'll write another bug report with the same content. I'm sorry. I'll make sure to check that in my next bug reports.
Actions that triggered the bug
1. Evaluate (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'number) in a number.
Current result
"nil" is returned
Expected result
The boundaries of the number should be returned.
Additional information
First, some context: The following sexp (thing-at-point 'number) is able
to get the number at point. For example, when the cursor is on any digit
of the following number: 123, that sexp returns "123".
One might think that the following sexp
(bounds-of-thing-at-point 'number)
returns the boundaries of the number at point. However, this doesn't
happen because "number" is not a recognized value for the THING
parameter in the function bounds-of-thing-at-point although "number" is
a recognized parameter in parameter with the same name THING in
thing-at-point.
Note that both thing-at-point and bounds-of-thing-at-point belong to the
same package: thingatpt.el
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