From: tomer <tomer1levin@walla.co.il>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: incremental search in all visible buffers
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:37:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8326328f-9352-4fc3-a8a1-367f50ec45ae@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a8b137cf-eb68-49e1-b411-453876245997@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com
On Sep 14, 6:26 pm, Xah <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 10:40 pm, tomer <tomer1le...@walla.co.il> wrote:
>
> > is there any way to use incremental seach in all visible buffers.
> > this is usefull when working on a buffer while viewing also another
> > buffer, and I want to search(incremnatal search with highlight) on
> > both buffers and view immediate result on the buffers.
> > Thanks
> > Tomer
>
> you can go to dired, mark the buffers u want, then do a interactive
> find/replace operation where the replace string is identical to the
> find string.
>
> Basically:
>
> • M-x dired
> • type “m” to mark.
> • type “Q” to call dired-do-query-replace-regexp.
> • give your find string and replace string.
> • type “n” to not replace.
>
> So, the above would function like interactive search.
>
> For detail, see:
>
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/find_replace_inter.html
>
> not sure how to apply this to “visible” buffers... but it is not
> difficult to write a elisp... whatever your “visible” buffer might
> mean.
>
> Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
hi Xah
as i understand it,your solution is not incremental.
incremental means ( as i understatnd it) that as I type the string to
search ,after each character pressed in searched string
the emacs highligh all the places matches the updated searched
string.
Thanks
Tomer
Tomer
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-14 5:40 incremental search in all visible buffers tomer
2008-09-14 6:03 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-14 15:26 ` Xah
2008-09-22 8:37 ` tomer [this message]
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