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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 23:09:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yklolp3.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmitvn8x.fsf@rub.de>


On Mon, Jun 27 2022, Stephen Berman wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:52:48 +0200 Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> The first part, highlighting all matches, is not a problem. But I haven't
>> found a way yet to then extract all matches.
>
> Is this (suitably tweaked) good enough?
>
> (let ((matches ""))
>   (while (re-search-forward "lang=.." nil t)
>     (setq matches (concat matches (match-string 0) "\n")))
>   (kill-new matches))

Yeah, it's easy to code something up that collects all matches of some regex is
a buffer. I'm just a little surprised that this isn't already possible, from
isearch or hi-lock-mode or something...

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-27 21:09 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
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 [this message]
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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