From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:21:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87odfcggvl.fsf@jurta.org> <87prp9bae0.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216574536 16869 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2008 17:22:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 20 19:23:04 2008 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 1KKcch-00009e-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:23:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKcbo-0005pR-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKcbi-0005mK-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKcbg-0005jz-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57162 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKcbg-0005jX-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48713) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKcbg-0003Wt-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KKcb0-0003LS-OF; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:21:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <87prp9bae0.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:40:55 +0300) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:101020 Archived-At: whose single input argument accepts a list of files/buffers to search. They then switch to the first file/buffer from this list and start Isearch in it. It sounds good. But I would like to point out that you are developing yet another way of specifying a set of buffers and then acting on those buffers. In this case, the only kind of action is to search them, at least so far. Maybe others could be added. There are other features of this general sort. One of them is filesets. It was meant to provide a general solution for this kind of thing, but it does not seem to have caught on much. Perhaps it is not smoothly enough integrated with the rest of Emacs. Since you're starting on a new one, I wonder if you could turn this into a convenient interface for doing various operations on the same set of buffers. If we succeed in doing this, once and for all, it will be a major stap forward.