From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to search all open buffers? Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:12:48 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87odgosmcf.fsf@debby.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188511911 11169 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2007 22:11:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 31 00:11:50 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 1IQsEr-00044m-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:11:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQsEq-0007Fq-S0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQsEc-0007De-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQsEc-0007CT-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQsEc-0007CD-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.183]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IQsEY-0003Bl-5H; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from drms-590d5a74.pool.einsundeins.de [89.13.90.116] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML25U-1IQsEF2wOb-0007uq; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:11:25 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IQsFs-0003T4-Kx; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:12:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 31 Aug 2007 00\:18\:24 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19LksSz6BCkiHVb5l2TYyOUEtk5D0zK62EGugZ Nqu1S/0j59hKA0loK1VINPkJtBPoswEwNfJPy/OmavTtIEpMeQ gQt6Ho2+IdAelSIeBYzagb+WMVoWg7I X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:46996 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: kj >> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:46:27 +0000 (UTC) >> >> I run into this *all* the time: I've been coding for several days, >> working on 20-30 files simultaneously, and I need to get back to >> the one among these many buffers that contains a particular string >> or regex. > > Then just search the files for that regex, e.g. with the Dired's `A' > command. Emacs will notice when a particular file is already in a > buffer and will search that buffer instead. But the A (dired-do-search) key seems to work only for the files which are present in the current Dired buffer not necessarily for all opened buffers. Wouldn't be--in this context--dired-do-search in the buffer *Buffer List* a better idea (if it only were available there)? -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany