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Subject: Test for a list of words?
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Hi,

How can I test whether a buffer contains some words? Here is an example:

(re-search-forward "foo\\|bar\\|baz" nil t)

tests if one or more of the words are present, but I would like to test for
all of them. (This is inside a function)

Thanks for any hint.
-- 
Svend Tollak Munkejord