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occur is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘replace.el’. The definition is as follows:

(defun occur (regexp &optional nlines region)
  (interactive
   (nconc (occur-read-primary-args)
          (and (use-region-p) (list (region-bounds)))))
  (let* ((start (and (caar region) (max (caar region) (point-min))))
         (end (and (cdar region) (min (cdar region) (point-max))))
         (in-region-p (or start end)))
    (when in-region-p
      (or start (setq start (point-min)))
      (or end (setq end (point-max))))
    (let ((occur--region-start start)
          (occur--region-end end)
          (occur--matches-threshold
           (and in-region-p
                (line-number-at-pos (min start end))))
          (occur--orig-line
           (line-number-at-pos (point)))
          (occur--orig-line-str
           (buffer-substring-no-properties
            (line-beginning-position)
            (line-end-position))))
      (save-excursion ; If no matches `occur-1' doesn't restore the point.
        (and in-region-p (narrow-to-region start end))
        (occur-1 regexp nlines (list (current-buffer)))
        (and in-region-p (widen))))))

When the above function is invoked, the user is prompted to input a regexp for searching.

What I want is to make a new function myoccur by hard-coding a regexp in the above function and make it non-interactive, so that I can conveniently invoke it. If a wrapper over the original occur can make it non-interactive, that would also be great. How should I do?

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I finally found a solution:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x j") (lambda () (interactive) (occur "regexp" nil)))

I also found that \ needs to be escaped by another \ in the regexp, which is different from the regexp inputted in interactive mode. For example, to match all functions and subroutines defined in a Fortran code, the regexp should be:

^ *\\(\\(subroutine\\)\\|\\(function\\)\\)

while in the interactive mode, the regexp is:

^ *\(\(subroutine\)\|\(function\)\)

Update: The reason is that, which I found at emacs website, the string syntax for a backslash is \\

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