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Is there any way to insert text into a buffer that isn't the active buffer with Elisp?

Perhaps there is an equivalent to with-temp-buffer that takes a specific, existing buffer as an argument?

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Perhaps something like:

(with-current-buffer "*scratch*" (insert "Test"))

is what you want.

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  • Of course! Don't know why I forgot that. Thank you.
    – JCC
    Aug 24, 2016 at 23:57

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