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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t