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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to search all open buffers?
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:57:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D356E9.3090501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fy24wqp8.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>

Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>>>>>> "kj" == kj  <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> 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

There is a page here about similar things:

   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategorySearchAndReplace

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-27 22:57 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) [this message]
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
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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