Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex

[Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, at 18:12, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Not a direct answer to your question, but perhaps similar. If you
> can live with selecting /lines/ containing a match, there's "occur"
> (M-x occur).

Sorry, I meant to mention that, but I forgot. No, selecting lines is not an option, because it's the non-matching parts of each line that I'm trying to get rid of.

In my particular use case, I'm trying to clean up a file that looks something like this:

```
blah blah lang=en bla
lang=de
lang=fr blah blah
blah lang=pt
```

The part I'm interested in is "lang=xx", the rest needs to be removed. Each line contains this part (with different language codes), but may contain more text, which is irrelevant to me. There's no pattern to the irrelevant part, it can basically be any text.

I can highlight them with `highlight-regexp`, search for them with isearch, but there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to copy or kill them...


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