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

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:12:43 -0800

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 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.

Is there any hope of resurrecting it?

If not, I think what Sean writes above is the way to go.