From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to search all open buffers? Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:03:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87odgimex8.fsf@adboyd.com> References: <46DD8BA0.8010609@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188932663 30218 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 19:04:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:04:23 +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 Sep 04 21:04:20 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 1ISdgq-0007rB-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:03:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISdgp-0006az-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISdgY-0006ZY-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISdgX-0006Ys-2G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISdgW-0006Yj-NG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:03:36 -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 1ISdgW-0007tq-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ISdgS-0007xz-8o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:03:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 156-40.126-70.tampabay.res.rr.com ([70.126.40.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:03:32 +0200 Original-Received: from david by 156-40.126-70.tampabay.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:03:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 156-40.126-70.tampabay.res.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1100000000000003 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FEC5ljE45ZB3CGBnygsY0BYLptw= 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:47209 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>>> "kj" == kj 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