bug#24969: 26.0.50; number-at-point

[Andreas Röhler]

On 20.11.2016 13:53, Stephen Berman wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:47:50 +0100 Andreas Röhler 
> <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
>
> > After evaluating show-number in buffer of contents below, it should jump to
> > char "1" and return them, but returns nil.
> >
> > ;;;
> >
> > foo-1
> >
> > (defun show-number ()
> >    (interactive)
> >    (goto-char 5)
> >    (message "%s" (number-at-point)))
> >
> > ;;;
> When I try your recipe, point jumps to the - sign
Seems there is a leading whitespace.


>   and the echo area
> displays -1.

Here with that start from minus-sign equally nil is returned.

Thanks