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Re: feature request: ability to use occur within *Occur* buffer
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Bill Wohler |
Subject: |
Re: feature request: ability to use occur within *Occur* buffer |
Date: |
23 Feb 2001 09:14:17 -0800 |
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brutt@bloomington.in.us (Benjamin Rutt) writes:
> wohler@newt.com (Bill Wohler) writes:
>
> > The pattern you need to follow in this and several other cases is to
> > rename the affected buffer before the second operation. For example,
> > after your first search, try "M-x rename-buffer RET foo RET M-x
> > list-matching-lines RET some-string RET".
>
> I'm aware of that, but that's just a workaround. I still consider it
> a bug until convinced otherwise.
Allow me to try ;-).
Consider the opposite. Let's say you created a new buffer for
operations like *Occur* if a buffer already existed, and for
consistency, you'd also have to do this for *Help*, *Messages*,
*Article*, *Group*, show+-inbox, *Recipients*, *compilation*,
*VC-log*, *vc*, *vc-diff*, *cvs-diff*, *cvs-info*, and so on, you
would have 100s of buffers inside a few minutes.
Reusable temporary buffers are a tremendous feature, not a bug..
Since you are refining your search and you're working in a temporary
buffer, keep-lines and delete-matching-lines are more appropriate
functions anyway.
--
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> http://www.newt.com/wohler/
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Re: feature request: ability to use occur within *Occur* buffer, thi, 2001/02/15