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 21:52:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87v8skd0r6.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <82a978f3-e974-4d8f-b87e-5707ffec0b5b@www.fastmail.com> <8543a730-b78f-491f-a3a9-66e23034f0d9@www.fastmail.com> <87fsjpxuwy.fsf@gmail.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="24387"; 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:PsZ/2Z+jKXbn+4BaVwf7fAcebag= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 21:53:15 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 1o6HGt-00068O-Pq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:53:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33926 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6HGs-0003iY-8b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6HG6-0003iM-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39596) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o6HG5-0005DB-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o6HG2-00052Y-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2022 21:52:22 +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:138176 Archived-At: Visuwesh wrote: > I wonder if you can use C-u M-s o for the job. I did C-u M-s > o lang=.. then it produced a buffer with the contents > > lang=en > lang=de > lang=fr > lang=pt (require 'cl-lib) (cl-loop while (re-search-forward "lang=\\([[:alnum:]]*\\)" (point-max) t) with hits = () do (push (match-string-no-properties 1) hits) finally return (sort (cl-delete-duplicates hits :test #'string=) #'string<) ) ;; blah blah lang=en bla ;; lang=de ;; lang=fr blah blah ;; blah lang=pt ;; blah blah lang=en bla ;; lang=de ;; lang=fr blah blah ;; blah lang=pt ;; result: ("de" "en" "fr" "pt") -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal