Emacs – select entire buffer macro

This is some emacs lisp code that makes -c a select the entire buffer. This is all terribly simple to do (if you spend a while looking at the documentation) – but I’d quite like to be able to cut and paste this without think. This has to pasted into your .emacs file to work.

(fset 'select-buffer
   [?\C-a ?\M-])
(global-set-key "^Ca" (quote select-buffer))

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Of course, if you, unlike me, read documentation before deciding to impose your views upon people you might just use the mark-whole-buffer macro instead, which seems to be bound to C-x h by default.