Re: how to get around deprecated function

[Emanuel Berg]

B. T. Raven <btraven@nihil.net> writes:

> I am constantly losing short pieces of text left in
> *scratch* and I wrote this interactive function
> [...]
>
> It "works" but according to the docs
> mark-whole-buffer shouldn't be used this way.
> Is there an understandable (to me) right way of
> doing this or doing something else that can be
> invoked as easily?

In the help for `append-to-file', it says

    (append-to-file START END FILENAME) ... If START
    is nil, that means to use the entire
    buffer contents.

Also, instead of using `switch-to-buffer', use
`with-current-buffer'. And, instead of using `setq',
use `let'. Or - as the data doesn't reappear - you
might as well put the function invocations in the
append-to-file invocation itself.

Use the Emacs byte-compiler to get suggestions such as
these. You already found out they are in the help, but
the byte-compiler can be a way of not having to check
the help for every function used...

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