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Re: Creating Custom Occur Mode Buffers
From: |
Alex Bennée |
Subject: |
Re: Creating Custom Occur Mode Buffers |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:08:37 +0000 |
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mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.50.2 |
Eric James Michael Ritz <EricJMRitz@yahoo.com> writes:
> I am working on a mode where I want the user to take some user input,
> run it through an external program which will return all lines in a
> file matching that input, and then show those lines in an *Occur*
> buffer so that the user can easily navigate them.
I'm confused as to what your trying to achieve other than
re-implementing occur-mode with an external step?
> What is the best
> way to create and populate a buffer to work with Occur Mode? Or is
> there a better approach which I should consider?
You may want to look at helm (helm-occur, helm-swoop etc). If none of
the existing helm-* functions do what you need it's built to make it
fairly easy to navigate and narrow any list of stuff.
>
> Thank’s everyone in advanced for any help.
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Alex Bennée