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Re: copy visible text with some lines hidden with hide-lines
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Rupert Swarbrick |
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Re: copy visible text with some lines hidden with hide-lines |
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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:05:36 -0600 |
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Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) |
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:22:14 -0700, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>> One thing I've done in the past was to use C-M-! and run a grep command
>> which will give me the lines I want (and not too much cruft). Then you
>> get a temporary buffer, with which you can't accidentally blat your log
>> file by saving (so you needn't be scared of deleting lots more stuff)
>> and which is hopefully small enough the Emacs won't get upset about
>> buffer size.
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> I think you meant `M-!'. Have you tried `M-x occur'?
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Oops you're right. And no I hadn't tried M-x occur, but I have now thanks!
Rupert