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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>Date: 28 Aug 2003 00:10:28 -0400
>>
>>minibuf: how to "grab" (M-W) it's text?
>>
> 
> Like in any other buffer: the minibuffer is a normal Emacs buffer,
> it's just displayed specially.

Besides buffer-string and buffer-substring, see minibuffer-prompt,

minibuffer-prompt-end, and minibuffer-contents.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers