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From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to search all open buffers?
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:03:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odgimex8.fsf@adboyd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46DD8BA0.8010609@gmail.com

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>> "kj" == kj  <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:
>>
>> kj> In all honesty, reading your reply made me only *more* puzzled at
>> kj> this resistance to a built-in command to search all file-visiting
>> kj> buffers.
>>
>> I think it is a fine idea.  I'm a little surprised it doesn't exist
>> yet somewhere.  It shouldn't be too hard to write... :-)
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?action=browse;oldid=SearchAndReplace;id=CategorySearchAndReplace

There is something called multi-occur that does this.

Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-04 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-27 20:33 How to search all open buffers? kj
2007-08-27 22:36 ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-08-27 22:57   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-08-27 23:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-29 15:52   ` Eric Hanchrow
     [not found] ` <fb1e0l$jm0$1@reader1.panix.com>
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5468.1188330586.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-29  9:51     ` Richard G Riley
2007-08-30 16:46     ` kj
2007-08-30 21:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-30 22:12         ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-31  3:18           ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-08-31  6:08             ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-31 13:07               ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-08-31  8:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.76.1188508709.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-04 13:30         ` kj
2007-09-04 15:51           ` Tom Tromey
2007-09-04 16:45             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-04 19:03               ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2007-09-04 20:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.323.1188938333.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-07 19:16             ` kj
     [not found] <defy23tpt1.fsf@freenet.de>
2007-09-01  1:22 ` Drew Adams

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