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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, adam <at> alphapapa.net, acorallo <at> gnu.org, 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a generalized variable
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:45:03 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, adam <at> alphapapa.net, 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  acorallo <at> gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:39:14 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Do note that the original reason of obsoletion was different:
> > ...
> > Commit log messages are not a legal document, so treating them as if
> > they were the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is not
> > TRT.
> 
> I am not saying that commit message is the full truth.
> But I did not find any other relevant discussion about
> `buffer-substring' on the mailing list. (And commit message did not
> contain any reference to such discussion)
> 
> So, I simply used information that was available to me to check
> Michaels' claim.
> 
> If you have a link to the discussion leading to obsolete of
> `buffer-substring', feel free to share it.

I respectfully suggest to consider this discussion as relevant
evidence.

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