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Buffer Text Notation

Some examples show modifications to text in a buffer, with "before" and "after" versions of the text. In such cases, the entire contents of the buffer in question are included between two lines of dashes containing the buffer name. In addition, the location of point is shown as `-!-'. (The symbol for point, of course, is not part of the text in the buffer; it indicates the place between two characters where point is located.)

---------- Buffer: foo ----------
This is the -!-contents of foo.
---------- Buffer: foo ----------

(insert "changed ")
     => nil
---------- Buffer: foo ----------
This is the changed -!-contents of foo.
---------- Buffer: foo ----------

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