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eintr: insert-buffer

 
 5.2 The Definition of ‘insert-buffer’
 =====================================
 
 ‘insert-buffer’ is yet another buffer-related function.  This command
 copies another buffer _into_ the current buffer.  It is the reverse of
 ‘append-to-buffer’ or ‘copy-to-buffer’, since they copy a region of text
 _from_ the current buffer to another buffer.
 
    Here is a discussion based on the original code.  The code was
 simplified in 2003 and is harder to understand.
 
    (New Body for ‘insert-buffer’ New insert-buffer, to see a
 discussion of the new body.)
 
    In addition, this code illustrates the use of ‘interactive’ with a
 buffer that might be “read-only” and the important distinction between
 the name of an object and the object actually referred to.
 

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· insert-buffer code
· insert-buffer interactive   When you can read, but not write.
· insert-buffer body          The body has an ‘or’ and a ‘let’.
· if & or                     Using an ‘if’ instead of an ‘or’.
· Insert or                   How the ‘or’ expression works.
· Insert let                  Two ‘save-excursion’ expressions.
· New insert-buffer
 

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