Re: how to get around deprecated function

[Rusi]

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 4:29:14 AM UTC+5:30, B. T. Raven wrote:
> This was posted by mistake to the gnus group:
> 
> >
> >Hello:
> >
> >I am constantly losing short pieces of text left in *scratch* and I wrote 
> >this
> >interactive function:
> >
> >(defun save-scratchtemp ();; M-x scr
> >  (interactive)
> >  (switch-to-buffer "*scratch*")
> >  (mark-whole-buffer)
> > (setq start (point) end (mark))
> > (append-to-file start end "c:/mydocu~1/scratchtemp.txt")
> >)
> >
> >It "works" but according to the docs mark-whole-buffer shouldn't be used this
> >way.Is there an understandable (to me) right way of doing this or doing
> >something else that can be invoked as easily?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Ed
> >

Not exactly what you do but for the same reason I have:

(add-hook 'lisp-interaction-mode-hook  
          (function (lambda () (setq buffer-offer-save t))))