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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:58:14 -0500

> I would propose that we should keep anything where there isn't a simple
> set-* function to take its place.
> So at least buffer-string and buffer-substring, and possibly more.

For `buffer-substring`, there was a proposal to introduce a setter
function (`replace-region`, see bug#76313), but it got bogged down in
the bikeshed.

        Stefan