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I just didn't know how to pass the two number argument(START and END) 
after "<ALT> x".
With your advice, I understand, just use mouse to "create" the "active 
mask" in oldbuf, then do "<ALT> x append-to-buffer buffer".
It works now.
Thank you!

Douglas Lewan wrote:
> Wu,
> 
> To use "append-to-buffer" interactively simply type "M-x 
> append-to-buffer" (where M-x is "<ESC> x" or possibly "<ALT> x").
> 
> To use it in another Emacs Lisp program:
> 1. Determine the BUFFER that you want to append to.
> 2. Calculate the START and END locations in the current buffer
>    that define the text to be appended.
> 3. In your defun simply write:
>        (append-to-buffer BUFFER START END)
> 
> I hope this helps.
>