From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:56:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87pmitvn8x.fsf@rub.de> References: <82a978f3-e974-4d8f-b87e-5707ffec0b5b@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17585"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Joost Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 22:57:35 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 1o5vna-0004Qp-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:57:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51538 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5vnZ-0007gb-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5vn0-0007eV-41 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:38445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5vmu-00015D-Nv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:56:57 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1656363407; bh=lhM84XEcV/t5gUFj3w1Dq0VNZN68i5fV7IV3zr1OuBU=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To; b=c52MnoiUAXuJk8HY3MZ166Lz7NvoU2xWP8bEL6n3DgBVao9Dsi8gnWWAajdcqRJB2 gA70ATbc4bAtHIK2VZ8ORr1c7UHzJglk6Qgx5xh5XoUq1da8dFLRRzpvEvNWyCuPXU Yu1g3CUUE/ft1lMiY+CVIYvF+XcSxRkAstdolEc0= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Original-Received: from strobelfs2 ([89.246.36.255]) by mail.gmx.net (mrgmx005 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MZCb5-1oAguN3Ro1-00V60i; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:56:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <82a978f3-e974-4d8f-b87e-5707ffec0b5b@www.fastmail.com> (Joost's message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:52:48 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:W2Wp5WiWQUnevT0lWn6RvuKiTyRMdox2ijvUbGvfphk6RgiDQb4 rohdM/06KMhKF0Lmn+cOe3n79qfHaWFmSnfAtKkxmOjc+i1NPt4G0wSAuMimZnjTo5yWbSW yNyu7k+G/wMO472+XPNFpW/O7x4eOAM52HCq7tRAkP1p0GbXlOUeudcaY4z6EVSklX/TnEu ryjd8LwcVtUexzj357JJg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:7SXvzK+QLP8=:dG1VtYhBwJrMX4wYVc+tpI yF++bE1NzmZaBd1Gh2nU+QlWyEsePUQ7CIv3V8jRC5SnLEfv6UkSv1xiOtQg8MFlNQZ8dnd1P Q53PzvPUJuvpQn57Nbxl+ROYWQrQ2w5vfJ92afBF7WiDYbrVrfCNuSfxGQsj0zlKBlmQgysaJ I98iwDbwneaRZo+XokfzAWUpCCW9PpqsYtXwr65qR4+HKQA/VCr/dV+Cu1SxGInUEkZf40FdE BBsC5Dg8PcKLg1Nin5hiVChjmaNdN1LlFISk947KxAb49O6Ss8cEnUKh3C40Ab8/eU/5zkQls 9ZlEgzwMXySdW0O9OPSXh79tbjHYJBXaYXnjSNJGzG6oPXtbZYV5kv7Hx6xSf1Lrzf0KG45fh iYlYEb37jwHEi+MDnk+Dd6PNSfmYlRwO1YeBcl5Ovf931kfzkAYhRmLeVl+37hMxR16IAV5mA kykNmjmB2v4d1Z+HyTTbXAM+e1qTosoqOGiNYWez2UXc4aOVeXH9kmcsPT831iWQJryfn/nIb 01kE9tdLf69uL2INbBF2M4OZ4WWXbZhuKRJapgjE0z4TaaRSms9W1r7YodbVSEOqJTFnAyCpz 4n4PwgCJuWTsDst7OoQm+FuR17Bt39wtR9Od/mXC0Pf5EYGQSdC5893LbvAGHM+f7JR9faAOP svgjSt8KkSfH8SD+FGIIb2sDWrhpYzdjY6l/C5DQrVXGfOzc5ti2Ez6XCetsas6cJxl1dYis4 h8EbgU+AkfcjyeQ2k1eTSuNS6IHffbZQctfpwqs1Xpb/V8bYzpNLZbbDgcpqxVjA8kNFgjCv Received-SPF: pass client-ip=212.227.15.15; envelope-from=stephen.berman@gmx.net; helo=mout.gmx.net X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, T_SPF_HELO_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=ham 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:138131 Archived-At: On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:52:48 +0200 Joost wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been looking for at least an hour for something that my Sublime-using > colleagues seem to be able to do out of the box... Highlight all matches of > some regex in the current buffer and then copy/kill *all* of those matches so > that you can yank them in a new buffer. > > 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)) Steve Berman