Re: Narrow buffer to the results of an isearch?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

There is a page on http://www.emacswiki.org/ about occur and moccur that 
I believe could be interesting. If I remember correctly there is even a 
way to edit the results from an moccur search. Quite nice!

-- Lennart


Ryan Newton wrote:

> Thanks, M-x occur is pretty good.  I can see them all together, and  
> editing them isn't too hard.
>
> B.T. Raven, I would hesitate to try to sed-out a separate buffer for  
> fear of it being difficult to reinsert.  (But by just including line  
> numbers in the sed output and reinserting at those line numbers,  
> maybe it wouldn't be so bad...)
>
> Thanks all,
> --Ryan
>
> On Oct 7, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>
>> Ryan Newton 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?
>>>
>>
>> M-x occur
>