Re: display information in seperate buffer

[Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net>]

Fabian Braennstroem <fab <at> ddorf.de> writes:

> I wonder if there exist any package that filters out some
> information about certain files using dired and display
> those in a separate buffer.
> I mean I would like to extract lines with certain keywords
> (e.g. fluid and turbulence) or special lines from the file
> which is currently 'active' in dired. It is probably similar
> to some mbox filtering. And more advanced: if two files are
> 'active/marked' then show the infos in separate windows and
> highlight the differences (probably like ediff-buffers).

Do you know about `occur', `multi-occur' and `dired-do-igrep'
(from igrep.el)?  They should be a good starting point.

  -ECL