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Fixing the "‘preceding-sexp’ is an obsolete function (as of 25.1)" emacs startup error
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patch-sexp-fu.txt
Check out this (sadly unmerged) PR:
https://github.com/hchbaw/eval-sexp-fu.el/pull/3/files
replacing preceding-sexp with elisp--preceding-sexp by danielschranz · Pull Request #3 · hchbaw/eval-sexp-fu.el
This is to avoid the obsolete warning in Emacs 25.1 (see: http://doc.endlessparentheses.com/Fun/preceding-sexp.html)
find your eval-sexp-fu source file, and patch it - there's 2 replacements of preceding-sexp with elisp--preceding-sexp
the file is something like ~/.emacs.d/elpa/eval-sexp-fu-20131230.1351/eval-sexp-fu.el
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