From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 18:57:02 +0300 Message-ID: <4723d923-102a-685c-9145-7e08ca3498bb@yandex.ru> References: <8737dr6kxx.fsf@calancha-pc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491148699 19748 195.159.176.226 (2 Apr 2017 15:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 15:58:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0 Cc: juri linkov To: Tino Calancha , 26338@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 02 17:58:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cuhtJ-0004GN-1U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 02 Apr 2017 08:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([185.105.173.156]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id m201sm10749638wmd.15.2017.04.02.08.57.03 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Apr 2017 08:57:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8737dr6kxx.fsf@calancha-pc> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:131219 Archived-At: On 02.04.2017 15:41, Tino Calancha wrote: > we have `count-matches' in replace.el, which returns the > number of matches of a regexp. Why not to have an standard > function `collect-matches' as well? > > I know `xref-collect-matches' but it uses grep program: some users might > not have grep installed, or they may prefer to use Emacs regexps. > > I've being using for a while something similar than the patch below. > Probably it doesn't need to be a command, just a normal function. > > What do you think? When used interactively, isn't M-x occur doing something like this? And for Elisp programs, (while (re-search-forward ...)) is usually sufficient. That's a three-liner at worst. And I've never had a need to limit the number of matches, personally.