Subject: Re: bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a generalized variable

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:46:04 +0000

Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
of text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Any arguments why this gv is different from the others that had been
> deprecated?

It is one of the commonly used gvs.
https://github.com/search?q=%22%28setf+%28buffer-substring%22&type=code
gives 500+ hits (and it is not all forks of one or two popular packages)

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