From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:56:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmitvn8x.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82a978f3-e974-4d8f-b87e-5707ffec0b5b@www.fastmail.com> (Joost's message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:52:48 +0200")
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:52:48 +0200 Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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.
Is this (suitably tweaked) good enough?
(let ((matches ""))
(while (re-search-forward "lang=.." nil t)
(setq matches (concat matches (match-string 0) "\n")))
(kill-new matches))
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-27 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
2022-06-28 4:42 ` tomas
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