From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:44:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrnsZ7NmK3flDSw3@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8543a730-b78f-491f-a3a9-66e23034f0d9@www.fastmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 07:16:27PM +0200, Joost wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, at 18:12, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Not a direct answer to your question, but perhaps similar. If you
> > can live with selecting /lines/ containing a match, there's "occur"
> > (M-x occur).
>
> Sorry, I meant to mention that, but I forgot. No, selecting lines is not an option, because it's the non-matching parts of each line that I'm trying to get rid of.
>
> In my particular use case, I'm trying to clean up a file that looks something like this:
[...]
I see. No, I don't know such a thing out of the box (that doesn't
mean much, though).
It shouldn't be that difficult to cobble something together.
Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-27 17:44 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 [this message]
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
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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