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Emacs functions for searching for a regex in a region and dumping the results in a temp buffer
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;; This function stolen from https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/7150/12219 | |
(defun re-seq (regexp string) | |
"Get a list of all regexp matches in a string" | |
(save-match-data | |
(let ((pos 0) | |
matches) | |
(while (string-match regexp string pos) | |
(push (match-string 0 string) matches) | |
(setq pos (match-end 0))) | |
matches))) | |
(require 'cl) | |
(defun re-seq-in-region-unique (start end regex) | |
"Select a region and enter a regex to search for. Results will be dumped in a temp buffer." | |
(interactive "r \nsRegex: ") | |
(with-output-to-temp-buffer (make-temp-name "re-seq-results") | |
(let ((matches (remove-duplicates | |
(re-seq regex (buffer-substring-no-properties start end)) | |
:test (lambda (x y) (or (null y) (equal x y)))))) | |
(while matches | |
(princ (concat (car matches) "\n")) | |
(setq matches (cdr matches)))))) |
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