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

[Emanuel Berg]

Joost Kremers 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...

You are a little surprised? It is like that all the time with
Elisp.

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