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From: Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Cc: 71370@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a generalized variable
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:44:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iky4zedz.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1bd201f-8e24-479a-ba59-b5004e5f3ee9@alphapapa.net> (Adam Porter's message of "Tue, 4 Jun 2024 20:33:13 -0500")

Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> ┌────
> │ (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
> │   (setf (buffer-substring (oref (magit-current-section) start)
> │                           (oref (magit-current-section) end))
> │         "foobar\n"))
> └────
>
> Otherwise, one would have to use `delete-region' and then `insert',
> which is more cumbersome and error-prone.

I guess alternatively you could define a helper function and make that
`setf'able, like

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defalias 'magit-buffer-substring #'buffer-substring)
(gv-define-simple-setter magit-buffer-substring
                         cl--set-buffer-substring)
#+end_src


Michael.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-19 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-05  1:33 bug#71370: 30.0.50; Please un-obsolete buffer-substring as a generalized variable Adam Porter
2024-06-05 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-05 12:09   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-05 14:16   ` Adam Porter
2024-06-05 14:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-05 17:35       ` Adam Porter
2024-06-19 23:44 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-06-20  4:05   ` Adam Porter
2024-06-20 15:33     ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-20 15:46       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-21  8:55         ` Andrea Corallo
2024-06-21 22:52           ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-22  6:05             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-22  8:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-22  8:39                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-22  9:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-22  7:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-27 15:09   ` Adam Porter

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