Re: How to make the buffer to be display in one windows

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

bbook1@gmail.com writes:

> Hi,
> When I use the M-x gid which use the lid -R grep ... to open a new
> buffer for displaying the search result. The problem is if I use M-X
> gid more times, The emacs will open buffers more than one, I only want
> to get the updated searched result, and can close the last opend buffer
> automatically, So I only have one buffer to be used for m-x gid
> command, that is its behavor should be like M-X shell. I try to setting
> same-window-regexps like "\\*lid -R grep.*", but it seems is not
> available.
>
> Thanks advanced,
>
> Bill

I get around this by doing M-x grep, then backspacing out the grep, and
running gid.

This opens up the results in the *grep* buffer, and always reuses the buffer.

Dave