Retrieving what is currently displayed in the minibuffer

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From: Glen Whitney
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 05:10

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I occasionally find myself wanting to insert in a file the string that 
currently appears in the minibuffer, or at least in the minibuffer area. 
For example, I have just saved a file, and it reads "Wrote
/mydir/bar/foo/newfile", and in a diary of what I am doing, I would like
to include that file name. So I thought I would write a Lisp function to
insert the minibuffer contents in the current buffer.
   However, I could find no way to access that information from within Emacs.
(I could get the #<buffer> structure which was the minibuffer, but taking 
"buffer-substring"s of it never returned anything.)
   Is this possible in current Gnu Emacs, or is that information actually
already forgotten by emacs by the time I see it?
   Thanks for any help,
        Glen Whitney

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Subject: Retrieving what is currently displayed in the minibuffer
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