Re: proced.el -- operate on processes like dired

["Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

On Sun Mar 30 2008 Mathias Dahl wrote:
> Yes, that's right, revert gets the lines back. The primary reason I
> use kill is to avoid information overload when working with files. I
> might mark files containing some regexp and the hits might be
> distributed in many remote places in the directory. Toggling and
> killing brings the marked files all neatly together, letting me work
> with them easily.

I see, (regexp marking and) toggling and killing can go together.
-- Of course, in the end this acts like a filter that could be
implemented as such. But depending on the context one or the other
approach can be more efficient.

> Yes, `kill' in this context might be confusing. What about `flush'
> which is used already in `flush-lines'. Or `remove' or `delete'?

Thanks, I'll think about it.

Roland