Re: rename buffer but overwrite already existing one

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

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>>> "AS" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

   > On Mär 23 2020, Uwe Brauer wrote:
   >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
   >> 
   >> >> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
   >> >> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:05:23 +0100
   >> >> 
   >> >> Couldn't rename-buffer, optionally, overwrite the content of a buffer.
   >> 
   >> > Yes, but it's called copy-to-buffer, not rename-buffer.
   >> 
   >> Thanks for pointing this out to me, but I have to mark the whole buffer
   >> first, which is a but inconvenient, I say.
   >> 
   >> Couldn't there an argument added so that with the argument the whole
   >> buffer is copied?

   > It's easy to define your own function that calls copy-to-buffer with
   > (point-min), (point-max).

That is what I thought

(defun my-copy-to-buffer (buffer)
  "Copy to specified BUFFER the whole buffer."
  (interactive "BCopy to buffer: \n")
  (let ((oldbuf (current-buffer)))
    (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create buffer)
      (barf-if-buffer-read-only)
      (erase-buffer)
      (save-excursion
	(insert-buffer-substring oldbuf (point-min) (point-max))))))


Does not work zero bytes where copied, there is something I miss, obviously.

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