Re: updating buffer window while accepting minibuffer input

[Michael Heerdegen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> > In Icicles' search, use the normal candidate exclusion mechanism.
>
> Which means:
>
> 1. Type a pattern to match whatever subset of the current
>    set of candidates you want to remove (exclude, subtract).
>
> 2. Then use `C-~' to remove them.
>
> See "Chip Away the Non-Elephant" in the Icicles doc:
> http://www.emacswiki.org//Icicles_-_Nutshell_View#ChippingAway

Thanks for elaborating, Drew.


Let me add: the poor man's version of this - or of doing this similarly
with helm - without using external packages could be reached with M-x
occur combined with M-x hide-lines.  Doesn't offer all the features that
come with these packages, but does the job.

Michael.