From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to search all open buffers? Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:36:03 -0700 Message-ID: <87fy24wqp8.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188257868 15056 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2007 23:37:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:37:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 28 01:37:25 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 1IPnEc-0003P6-NM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:39:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnEc-0007L8-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnEH-0007IW-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnEE-0007HH-4S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnED-0007H7-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:38:37 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPnEC-0007iU-7G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:38:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IPnDp-0006en-K9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:38:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6s41BhrWw26myfll7QrsR0J2KWc= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:46901 Archived-At: >>>>> "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 -- ... at a contemporary beefsteak it is unusual for a man to do away with more than six pounds of meat and thirty glasses of beer. -- Joseph Mitchell