Re: Select/highlight and *copy* matches of some regex

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Jun 27 2022, Stephen Berman wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:52:48 +0200 Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> The first part, highlighting all matches, is not a problem. But I haven't
>> found a way yet to then extract all matches.
>
> Is this (suitably tweaked) good enough?
>
> (let ((matches ""))
>   (while (re-search-forward "lang=.." nil t)
>     (setq matches (concat matches (match-string 0) "\n")))
>   (kill-new matches))

Yeah, it's easy to code something up that collects all matches of some regex is
a buffer. I'm just a little surprised that this isn't already possible, from
isearch or hi-lock-mode or something...

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Joost Kremers
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