From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: add INVERT to re-search-{forward, backward} Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:57:45 +0200 Message-ID: <48B2D679.9050206@gmail.com> References: <861wa92g6a.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fxyni898.fsf@jurta.org> <86myjrl2jz.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <878wumj8zx.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219679992 13611 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2008 15:59:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 25 18:00:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KXeUL-00041G-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:00:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55195 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXeTN-0007eF-U6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXeS4-000749-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXeS1-00072k-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50922 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXeS1-00072c-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:41942) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KXeS0-00017m-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:61707 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KXeRw-0005LY-6e; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:57:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <878wumj8zx.fsf@jurta.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080825-0, 2008-08-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KXeRw-0005LY-6e. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KXeRw-0005LY-6e f8cbfc40c546c769ebd1430481f08563 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102957 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: > Instead of this, I think the change should be done at the occur level, > since occur's algorithm is line-based and can skip lines that contain > a given regexp. This could be similar to the algorithm used by the > command `flush-lines' in the same file. `occur' currently works like the > command `keep-lines' that keeps lines containing the specified regexp. > But with a new INVERT argument, `occur' could work like `flush-lines' that > keep everything except lines containing the specified regexp. This is also similar to grep etc.