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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to copy current buffer to a temporary buffer
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 21:05:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9ahsfx5.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppjec5ar.fsf@Equus.Decebal.nl> (Cecil Westerhof's message of "Fri, 16 May 2014 13:49:00 +0200")

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() Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
() Fri, 16 May 2014 13:49:00 +0200

   I used insert-buffer earlier on, but that formatted
   the lines and that is not acceptable.

What does "formatted the lines" mean, precisely?  The docstring for
‘insert-buffer’ recommends ‘insert-buffer-substring’.  Did you try that?

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Thien-Thi Nguyen
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-16  7:59 How to copy current buffer to a temporary buffer Cecil Westerhof
2014-05-16  9:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-05-16 10:13   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1456.1400235243.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-16 11:49     ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-05-16 18:22       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-05-16 19:05       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]

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