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* Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex
@ 2022-06-27 15:52 Joost
  2022-06-27 16:12 ` tomas
  2022-06-27 20:56 ` Stephen Berman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Joost @ 2022-06-27 15:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi all,

I've been looking for at least an hour for something that my Sublime-using colleagues seem to be able to do out of the box... Highlight all matches of some regex in the current buffer and then copy/kill *all* of those matches so that you can yank them in a new buffer.

The first part, highlighting all matches, is not a problem. But I haven't found a way yet to then extract all matches.

I've also looked for third-party packages, but haven't been able to find anything. I read a few times that `multiple-cursors` can kill all matches as a rectangle, so that you can use `yank-rectangle`, but I haven't been able to make that work.

So what am I overlooking here? I mean, there *must* be a way, right?

TIA,

Joost


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Joost Kremers
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2022-06-27 15:52 Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex Joost
2022-06-27 16:12 ` tomas
2022-06-27 17:16   ` Joost
2022-06-27 17:44     ` tomas
2022-06-28  4:40     ` Visuwesh
2022-06-28 19:52       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-29 21:40       ` Joost Kremers
2022-06-30  6:05         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-28  9:29     ` Daniel Martín
2022-06-28 10:33       ` tomas
2022-06-27 20:56 ` Stephen Berman
2022-06-27 21:09   ` Joost Kremers
2022-06-27 22:26     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-27 22:29     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-27 22:41       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-27 23:11         ` DWIM interface (was: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex) Emanuel Berg
2022-06-27 22:44       ` Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex Emanuel Berg
2022-06-28  4:43         ` tomas
2022-06-28  5:37           ` Emanuel Berg
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