Re: Occur lite

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

On 07/15/2012 03:06 PM, B. T. Raven wrote:> Ignutians:
>
> Is there an Emacs function that extracts only words matching a regexp
> and writes them to another buffer? This would work exactly like the
> "occur" function but would write only the words to the *Occur* buffer
> instead of the whole line. I have looked at the code for "occur" in
> replace.el but I'm afraid it's over my head to try and modify it into a
> custom function.

An indirect solution: run occur and then run a regexp over the *Occur* 
buffer to capture each word. Something like:

(call-interactively #'occur)
(switch-to-buffer "*Occur*") ;; Or with-current-buffer
(goto-char (point-min))
;; etc.