bug#19004: 24.4; Please provide a non-regexp interface to occur

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> writes:

> I like occur a lot, but I find it inflexible -- the matched lines can only
> be specified by a regexp.  I'd like to be aple to pass a function to occur
> instead of a regexp.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

There are many ways to search in Emacs, and there's a some packages that
provide structured searching, too.  (For instance, to search based on
semantic qualities in the code.)

Given that, I don't think it makes that much sense to extend the `occur'
command itself -- it does the thing it does very well, and extending it
in that way would make an already complex command even more complicated.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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