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Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined.

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Message #17 received at 30241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 30241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#30241: Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined.
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:43:10 -0800 (PST)

> > 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).

Yes, and in particular we have `cl-letf' (which is misnamed,
since it does not come from Common Lisp - it should be called
`letf').

I meant only that we could conceivably have more generalized
vars than we have now.

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