Subject: Re: bug#30241: Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined.

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:38:28 -0500

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Drew Adams <[email-masked]> wrote:

> For Emacs, we could conceivably have many more generalized
> vars than we have now.  We might make it possible to use
> `setf' for functions like these, for instance: `point',
> `selected-* (*=...), `point-min|max', `current-*', ...

We do seem have such setf functions for several of those, a lot of
them require loading cl-lib (historical reasons, I guess).