A quick look at ftp://www.gnu.org reveals that the latest
version is Version 28.1 not 29.1 as you claim.

I presume you made a typo.

I much prefer the old aliases point-at-bol and point-at-eol.

Any change to this arrangement would in my opinion be
a step backwards..

*Davin.*

On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 at 19:40, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

> Davin Pearson wrote:
>
> > (set-text-properties (point-at-bol) (point-at-eol) '(read-only t))
>
> FYI
>
>   This function is obsolete since 29.1; use
>   ‘line-beginning-position’ instead.
>
>   This function is obsolete since 29.1; use
>   ‘line-end-position’ instead.
>
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