From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:26:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lethhhfo.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 875yklolp3.fsf@fastmail.fm
Joost Kremers 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...
You are a little surprised? It is like that all the time with
Elisp.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-27 22:26 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
2022-06-27 22:26 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
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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