From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "usman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: can I batch select buffers in buffer menu mode? Date: 18 Jul 2005 10:07:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1121706463.285922.67190@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121706526 5402 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2005 17:08:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 18 19:08:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuZ6G-0003wa-7N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:08:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuZ8C-00006K-QC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:10:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.82.0.114 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1121706468 30195 127.0.0.1 (18 Jul 2005 17:07:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:07:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.82.0.114; posting-account=_hYsIgwAAAAp72muyF3vLBZk-ULZLUbk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132481 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27994 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27994 I often have many buffers open at the same time; when I want to clean stuff up I hit 'C-x b', manually mark ones I don't want around anymore, then hit 'x' to delete them. Is there a way I can specify a pattern and mark all matching buffers for deletion? For instance, it'd be great if I could say "M-x mark-matching ~/src/2.2/*.cpp" to mark all buffers visiting files in that dir for removal. Thanks for any pointers, examples, etc. -usman