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I use keyboard macros for this type of thing, since no elisp
programming knowledge is needed.  I have call-last-kbd-macro
on F2 since I use it so much.

For example, if the two buffers are in the frame, the keyboard macro
might be:

beginning-of-line
set-mark-command
end-of-line
copy-region-as-kill
other-window
yank
other-window

If you use it often, you can name and save the macro.

googleartist@yahoo.com (Artist) writes:

> I want to copy selective lines from one buffer to another buffer.
> So I browse one buffer and whenever I come across interesting line,
> I just want to hit some command and copy to another buffer. I have
> seen the solution involving region, but that would be too much.

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