From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Remove all lines containig a keyword Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:42:44 -0700 Message-ID: <005701c916aa$70bf0cb0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <87zlma4v94.fsf@rosslaird.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221424978 11760 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2008 20:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:42:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Ross A. Laird'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 22:43:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KeyRl-0006Ld-Ly for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:43:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeyQl-0000Dv-1z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeyQN-00008j-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeyQM-00005m-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33481 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeyQM-00005b-4d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:42:26 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:64050) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KeyQL-0000jl-QW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:42:26 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m8EKgNbx013605; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt705.oracle.com (acsmt705.oracle.com [141.146.40.83]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m8EKgNSD025711; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:42:23 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.165.218) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:42:23 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AckWn/v8zPRVBBg/S5iG5IcM2oR/kgACg2hg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: <87zlma4v94.fsf@rosslaird.info> X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57585 Archived-At: > > M-x replace-regexp RET .*Sold.* C-o RET RET also works. > > Org-mode is great for this kind of thing. It allows searches and views > by tags, as well as customized cycling of states (eg FORSALE --> BIDFOR > --> SOLD). We're getting far afield. The simple answer to the OP's question, as has already been said, is `M-x flush-lines' (aka `delete-matching-lines').