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- From: cc@cowan.fishkill.ibm.com (Chris Cowan)
- Subject: Re: Getting the functionality of the XEDIT "all" command in emacs
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.124224.25155@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 12:42:24 GMT
- Reply-To: cc@cowan.fishkill.ibm.com (Chris Cowan)
- References: <16h2iqINNc4i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <16h2iqINNc4i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, fritz@scipp.UCSC.EDU
- (Frederick Staats) writes:
- |> Does anyone know how to get the functionality of the XEDIT "all"
- |> command inside emacs. You can use this command to narrow the focus of
- |> what you are editing to any lines that match a general search
- |> function. So if you were editing a program file and you did "all /else/"
- |> only lines that had an "else" in them would be displayed. This is
- |> very useful when editing programs and TeX files. And I would like to
- |> be able to do this within emacs.
- |> --
- |> Frederick Staats
- |> fritz@scipp.UCSC.EDU -- (408) 459-3575
- |> Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
- |> University of California at Santa Cruz
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- Have you looked at occur? IMHO, it's better than all.
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- Chris Cowan
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