Line Copy to Another Buffer

Line Copy to Another Buffer

[Artist]

Hi,
 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 hae seen
the solution involving region, but that would be too much.

Thanks,
Seeking art of copying
Artist

Re: Line Copy to Another Buffer

[Kai Großjohann]

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 hae seen
> the solution involving region, but that would be too much.

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)))

kai
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Re: Line Copy to Another Buffer

[Joe Casadonte]

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.

I have some crude code that does cut-copy-paste on the current region
or the current line, if there's no region (assumes transient-mark-mode
is on and mark-even-if-inactive is nil).  If anyone's interested, let
me know.

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Regards,

joe
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Re: Line Copy to Another Buffer

[kgold]

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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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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Re: Line Copy to Another Buffer

[Joe Casadonte]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

>>>(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.

Mea culpa.  You're right, of course.

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Regards,

joe
Joe Casadonte
jcasadonte@northbound-train.com

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