bug#24627: 24.5; (thing-at-point 'list) may return a non-empty string without a list

[Noam Postavsky]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Noam Postavsky wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Escape '[' and ']' in doc string.
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>> Huh? Why?
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>>> -[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.]"
>>> +\[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.\]"
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> Right, i should just escape the open '[', as follows:
> +\[Internal function used by `bounds-of-thing-at-point'.]"

Oh, I thought only round parens need to be escaped in the 1st column.
Is there something that looks for square brackets too?