Re: Negative occur

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On Nov 28, 11:21 am, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> "spamfilteracco...@gmail.com" <spamfilteracco...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Is there a command like occur which shows non-matching lines? It would
> > come in handy for me for the work I'm doing.
>
> > It's a useful a feature and not hard to implement, so I'm sure it's
> > already in Emacs in some form only I'm overlooking it.
>
> You could try running "occur" with the pattern "^" (which matches
> every line), then prune the results with M-x delete-matching-lines RET
>

Yep, there are workarounds. :)

But it seems a very basic feature, so I'd be surprised if Emacs didn't
have it.

We have keep-lines and flush-lines after all, so it would be logical
to have the same for occur.