Re: Creating Custom Occur Mode Buffers

["Alex Bennée" <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>]

Eric James Michael Ritz <EricJMRitz@yahoo.com> writes:

> I am working on a mode where I want the user to take some user input,
> run it through an external program which will return all lines in a
> file matching that input, and then show those lines in an *Occur*
> buffer so that the user can easily navigate them.

I'm confused as to what your trying to achieve other than
re-implementing occur-mode with an external step?

> What is the best
> way to create and populate a buffer to work with Occur Mode?  Or is
> there a better approach which I should consider?

You may want to look at helm (helm-occur, helm-swoop etc). If none of
the existing helm-* functions do what you need it's built to make it
fairly easy to navigate and narrow any list of stuff.

>
> Thank’s everyone in advanced for any help.

-- 
Alex Bennée