Re: Narrow buffer to the results of an isearch?

[Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawomir.nowaczyk.847@student.lu.se>]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:39:18 -0400
Ryan Newton <rrnewton@gmail.com> wrote:

#> Maybe this is impossible, I certainly haven't found anything on it yet.
#> 
#> What I want is to mask the current buffer to all lines matching an  
#> search.  Unfortunately I don't know if narrow-to-region can be used  
#> for this, because the region is defined as a continuous area of text  
#> between the mark and the point.
#> 
#> Has anyone hacked up support for discontinuous regions?  Or some  
#> other way that I can filter the buffer to only my lines of interest?

Depending on what do you want to do with the buffer, M-x occur might
work for you. And there is also an outline mode which you could look
into.

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