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> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:05:23 +0100
> 
> Couldn't rename-buffer, optionally, overwrite the content of a buffer.

Yes, but it's called copy-to-buffer, not rename-buffer.