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Never mind. I figure out how to use 'append-to-buffer, which I hadn't
known about.

"B.T. Raven" <ejmn@cpinternet.com> wrote in message
news:1138nl0isubuabe@corp.supernews.com...
> Greetings and Salutations:
>
> I would like to accomplish with one keystroke (maybe a function key
> bound to some elisp code) what would manually be done by selecting a
> region, copying, changing the current buffer, and then pasting at the
> end. Its seems that even before copy is invoked via menu edit > copy,
> etc. that emacs "knows" the mark and point of the region just
selected.
> I know about M-x copy-to-buffer, which is pretty close to what I want
> but I would like also like to have the target buffer's name hard-code
to
> something like "dribble.text" for example.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed.