consult-grep to occur-mode

[rakanalh]

Hello,

Would it be possible to support exporting consult-grep results to occur mode?

The use case consists of searching through the buffer / project, using occur mode to delete specific results and then:

1. either converting the buffer into a wgrep buffer where search and replace can be performed.
2. or just navigating the results knowing that i don't have to scroll through the ones i don't need to navigate into.

Thanks

[oantolin]

You an currently export consult-grep results to a grep-mode buffer. It sounds to me like that covers both your use cases well, why do you want occur specifically?

[rakanalh]

grep-mode buffer is ready-only and does not offer a way to edit the list by removing search candidates. A use case for this would be something as follows:

• i would like to search for pub fn and convert them to pub async fn (dumb example but bare with me). So we perform the search and assuming we get the occur buffer.
• Remove all candidates which are tests functions
• Convert the resulting list in occur into wgrep (that was possible using ivy-counsel)
• Search / replace .. done.

[rakanalh]

I just realized that keep-lines and flush-lines can be used to perform step 2 of this. The rest is already implemented i guess.