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

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Message #32 received at 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: Adam Porter <adam <at> alphapapa.net>, 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a
 generalized variable
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:46:04 +0000

Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> 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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