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30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a generalized variable

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Message #103 received at 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,
 Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, adam <at> alphapapa.net, acorallo <at> gnu.org,
 spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name
Subject: Re: bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a
 generalized variable
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:00:19 -0400

> That is not a necessary condition for making buffer-substring a
> generalized variable.  We could have an internal function, maybe not
> even exposed to Lisp, to replace the buffer substring.

We do, exposed to ELisp:

    (macroexpand '(setf (buffer-substring A B) C))
=~>
    (cl--set-buffer-substring A B C)


- Stefan

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