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Re: add INVERT to re-search-{forward, backward}
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Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
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Re: add INVERT to re-search-{forward, backward} |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:57:45 +0200 |
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Juri Linkov wrote:
> Instead of this, I think the change should be done at the occur level,
> since occur's algorithm is line-based and can skip lines that contain
> a given regexp. This could be similar to the algorithm used by the
> command `flush-lines' in the same file. `occur' currently works like the
> command `keep-lines' that keeps lines containing the specified regexp.
> But with a new INVERT argument, `occur' could work like `flush-lines' that
> keep everything except lines containing the specified regexp.
This is also similar to grep etc.