Re: Deleting matched lines by marking lines in *occur* buffer

[J. David Boyd]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> When I run M-x occur and get the following output
>
> 5 matches for "\.txt" in buffer: indices.conf
>      14:cnx_midcap_baseline.txt
>      16:cnx_nifty_jr_baseline.txt
>      18:sp_cnx_500_baseline.txt
>      20:sp_cnx_defty_baseline.txt
>      22:sp_cnx_nifty_baseline.txt
>
> is there a way to mark the lines in this buffer and expunge the lines
> in the corresponding source buffer?  A dired like support would be
> useful.  I did check the emacswiki and none of the other suggested
> packages seem to have support for this sort of thing.
>
> Any suggestions?  I suppose there's delete-matching-lines but wouldn't
> it also be useful in the occur buffer?
>
>  sivaram
>  -- 


Check out moccurr-edit.el at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/moccur-edit.el

I think it does what you are looking for, but I have never tried it.