Re: Why does this lisp function to grab text from buffer not work as I expect

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.24033.1365776319.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 acomber <deedexy@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have some text like this:
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> qwerty\tberty
> merty\tserty
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> I want to grab the text berty between the tab character and end of line. 
> Then to show it worked goto the end of the buffer and insert the text there.
> 
> But this code doesn't work.  Any ideas why not?
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Invisible code tends to work poorly.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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