From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:05:43 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ir4tqwj4.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193441847 5587 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2007 23:37:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 27 01:37:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IlYk3-0002mY-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:37:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlYju-0007G8-KQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlYjr-0007G3-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlYjp-0007Fj-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlYjp-0007Fg-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:37:13 -0400 Original-Received: from gnome.kiev.sovam.com ([212.109.32.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlYji-0003Ce-0R; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by gnome.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IlYjg-000MVI-JD; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:37:04 +0300 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlYje-000Oil-DK; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:37:02 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Thu\, 25 Oct 2007 14\:51\:39 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 8abf2c83e696415c40c55866f9369f42 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1690 [Oct 27 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 25 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81806 Archived-At: >> I'll try to find a general solution that will work also for searching >> from the buffer list that Drew asked for. > > Great - thanks. It need not follow what I said or even use the Buffer List. > The idea is to have some (interactive) way for a user to select the buffers > to be searched. Selecting the buffers to be searched is not a problem. I think the *Buffer List* is a good interface to select them. The question is how to start multi-buffer isearch. Imagine that you've marked a list of buffers in the *Buffer List*. How to start multi-buffer isearch now? Should C-s start multi-buffer isearch in marked files, or should C-s still allow searching for the string in the *Buffer List* (this is useful for searching buffer names in the *Buffer List*). This question is not limited to searching buffers from the *Buffer List*. To search in multiple files one good user interface would be marking a list of files in the dired buffer and starting multi-file isearch in marked files - "Incremental Grep"! -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/