From: pookiebearbottom@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: rookie warning Can I search files from dired?
Date: 1 Mar 2006 08:06:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141229211.527114.237180@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141217080.718534.299050@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>
bp1497@att.com wrote:
> I have dired showing me all the files in a directory, can I execute
> some kind of search on these files from the dired screen.
>
> I know I can do M-x shell, grep some_thing files.
>
> I've used vim for the last 17 years and have changed jobs. This
> location does not have vim installed but does have emacs. I prefer it
> to textedit or vi
Mark the files you want (with m)
Then do dired-do-grep (can just hit E <- note Capital E)
-Sal
PS C-h b is your friend (it lists all of the bindings for your current
mode)
So is C-h a regex (it will list all of the commands/variables/..
that match that regex. If you did this with the word grep you would
have found dired-do-grep - Not preaching here, just hopefully
teaching. I know what a pain it is to lose your editor)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-01 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-01 12:44 rookie warning Can I search files from dired? bp1497
2006-03-01 16:06 ` pookiebearbottom [this message]
2006-03-01 19:45 ` billy
2006-03-02 10:45 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-03-02 23:25 ` Drew Adams
2006-03-03 5:47 ` Ian Zimmerman
2006-03-03 21:40 ` kgold
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