copy text and name of the buffer

[Glynn Clements]

Uwe Brauer wrote:

> thanks very much, but I thought about the other way around,
> 
> I mark (or kill) a region, I visit or open a buffer and then I yank
> the region of the source buffer together with the name of the source
> buffer.
> 
> Besides  that I  think it  is  hand I  tried  to generalise  the nifty
> remember package by John Wiegley. This  package allows to copy text in
> a  special file (in my  case a file in  mailbox format).  So I want to
> add to the copied text, the information where the text comes form. For
> this I wanted to understand how to insert a name of a source buffer.

AFAICT, the main problem with what you are proposing is that killing
or copying text (C-w, M-w etc) doesn't keep any record of where the
text came from.

Determining the name of a given buffer is trivial, as is determining
its associated filename (if it has one). The tricky part is
determining exactly *which* buffer you are interested in.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>