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

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 71370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Adam Porter <adam <at> alphapapa.net>, Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a generalized variable
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:12:43 -0800

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> 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.

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