GNU bug report logs - #26338
26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current buffer

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Message #95 received at 26338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#26338: 26.0.50; Collect all matches for REGEXP in current
 buffer
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:41:16 +0200

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> writes:

> we have `count-matches' in replace.el, which returns the
> number of matches of a regexp.  Why not to have an standard
> function `collect-matches' as well?

A bunch of discussion then followed, and several patches, but it seemed
like many people just thought that this didn't seem generally useful
enough...  and I agree.  Gathering regexp matches from a buffer is a
three-liner, and chopping out parts of that is easy enough with seq-take
and friends, so adding separate functionality for this just doesn't seem
warranted, in my opinion.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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