From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:26:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87lethhhfo.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <82a978f3-e974-4d8f-b87e-5707ffec0b5b@www.fastmail.com> <87pmitvn8x.fsf@rub.de> <875yklolp3.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33799"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/fYX38SXzeblGu9COm2Cr/Mr00o= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 00:27:09 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o5xCH-0008ba-0L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:27:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37000 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5xCF-0008AH-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5xBP-0008A3-2h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:52412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5xBN-0005iR-Hc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o5xBK-0007K0-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:26:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138133 Archived-At: 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. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal