From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:12:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrnW7kAtZ5KJPivD@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82a978f3-e974-4d8f-b87e-5707ffec0b5b@www.fastmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 05:52:48PM +0200, Joost 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.
>
> 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?
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).
Each match is a "live link" to the location. You can even edit the
matches in the occur buffer itself (key 'e').
I didnt try what happens when you do a query-replace in the occur
buffer while it is in "edit" mode. But worth a try ;-)
Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-27 16:12 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 [this message]
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
2022-06-28 4:42 ` tomas
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