Re: Line Copy to Another Buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Joe Casadonte wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
>
> > Hm?  It's almost impossible to copy the line to another buffer
> > without using the region (or a region-like feature).
> >
> > (defun art-copy-line ()
> >  (interactive)
> >  (append-to-buffer "COPY-BUFFER" (line-beginning-position)
> >                                  (line-end-position)))
>
> Through a save-excursion around that and you're set.


Why is that necessary?  The line-*-positions don't affect point, and
append-to-buffer doesn't select the COPY-BUFFER buffer.

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Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>