From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to search all open buffers? Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:57:45 +0200 Message-ID: <46D356E9.3090501@gmail.com> References: <87fy24wqp8.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188258206 16134 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2007 23:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Hanchrow Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 28 01:42:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPnY1-0006GP-5R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:59:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnXD-0007Cp-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnWx-0007CC-7q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnWv-0007BI-Nf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnWv-0007BF-Hr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPnWv-0002aK-3J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:65019 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IPnWq-0005BW-6h; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:57:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87fy24wqp8.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000769-0, 2007-08-27), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IPnWq-0005BW-6h. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IPnWq-0005BW-6h abd44b0cb001522261269d0fe4cc872f X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:46902 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow wrote: >>>>>> "kj" == kj writes: > > kj> Hi. What's the Emacs command to search for a string in all > kj> the open buffers? > > As far as I know, the only way to do it is > > M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers RET . RET your-search-string RET > > which is not only awkward, but I swear sometimes it's failed to find > hits that I know where present. > > A more reliable, but even more awkward way, is > > M-x ibuffer RET * * RET t O your-search-string RET There is a page here about similar things: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategorySearchAndReplace