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Re: Hiding lines based on a regexp
From: |
David Vanderschel |
Subject: |
Re: Hiding lines based on a regexp |
Date: |
Tue, 31 May 2005 00:52:12 GMT |
"Mathias Dahl" <brakjoller.rem0veth1s@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "David Vanderschel" <DJV4@Austin.RR.com> writes:
> > Could someone please point me to a mechanism that would allow me to
> > temporarily hide from display certain lines in a file based on a
> > matching regular expression? There is somewhat similar
> > functionality with hide-ifdef-mode. However, I want something less
> > clever and more general.
> Have you looked on EmacsWiki?
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HideLines
Ahhh! That would have satisfied me. Too bad I was
not sufficiently patient to wait for Mathias's
response to my query. (I had really thought that this
was an easy one, and that I would quickly be pointed
in the right direction. When that did not happen, I
assumed that no one had already implemented the
capability.) Overlays are probably a better way to
implement it. However, for my own purposes, the extra
feedback from my own implementation (which I posted
elsewhere in this thread) about how many lines are
affected by commands makes it more useful to me.
Up to now, I had not been regarding EmacsWiki as a
resource for this sort of quest. I will consult it in
future. Thanks for the pointer.
Regards,
David V.