Re: copy visible text with some lines hidden with hide-lines

[Kevin Rodgers]

Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:46:20 -0800, jdzhang wrote:
>
> > I need looking at large (10s of MB) log files regularly. I use hide-
> > lines to filter out the lines I don't care. However, I was able to
> > figure out how to copy only the text being displayed. Any suggestions
> > are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jason Zhang
>
> One thing I've done in the past was to use C-M-! and run a grep command 
> which will give me the lines I want (and not too much cruft). Then you 
> get a temporary buffer, with which you can't accidentally blat your log 
> file by saving (so you needn't be scared of deleting lots more stuff) and 
> which is hopefully small enough the Emacs won't get upset about buffer 
> size.

I think you meant `M-!'.  Have you tried `M-x occur'?

> If it's a regular job, I suspect one could write a short elisp function 
> to get the relevant bits in this way, and maybe rename the buffer to 
> something more informative than the standard thing with ** in it.
>
> Rupert


--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA