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From: "spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Negative occur
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:53:40 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <205e9241-c824-46b0-af01-26ad3fcd0d97@y20g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85aboybrgo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

On Nov 28, 11:21 am, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> "spamfilteracco...@gmail.com" <spamfilteracco...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Is there a command like occur which shows non-matching lines? It would
> > come in handy for me for the work I'm doing.
>
> > It's a useful a feature and not hard to implement, so I'm sure it's
> > already in Emacs in some form only I'm overlooking it.
>
> You could try running "occur" with the pattern "^" (which matches
> every line), then prune the results with M-x delete-matching-lines RET
>

Yep, there are workarounds. :)

But it seems a very basic feature, so I'd be surprised if Emacs didn't
have it.

We have keep-lines and flush-lines after all, so it would be logical
to have the same for occur.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 10:15 Negative occur spamfilteraccount
2007-11-28 10:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-28 10:53   ` spamfilteraccount [this message]
2007-11-28 17:03     ` Drew Adams
2007-11-29 11:44     ` spamfilteraccount
     [not found] <mailman.4263.1196269422.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-28 18:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-28 22:52   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.4275.1196290389.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-29 15:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-11-29 17:25   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.4315.1196357177.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-29 18:27 ` spamfilteraccount
2007-12-05 17:44   ` Mathias Dahl

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