From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to search all open buffers? Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:51:46 -0600 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188922536 21215 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 16:15:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:15:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 18:15:35 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 1ISb3n-0007Nd-KR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISb3m-0006MS-2h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISb3U-0006Lh-Cd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:15:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISb3S-0006LN-W9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:15:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISb3S-0006LK-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISb3S-0000I5-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ISb3O-0003j7-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.189.193.185 ([207.189.193.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from tromey by 207.189.193.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.189.193.185 X-Attribution: Tom User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mBVnZz+BU+oAjHuNZ34PYEvA+8Q= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:47202 Archived-At: >>>>> "kj" == kj writes: kj> In all honesty, reading your reply made me only *more* puzzled at kj> this resistance to a built-in command to search all file-visiting kj> buffers. I think it is a fine idea. I'm a little surprised it doesn't exist yet somewhere. It shouldn't be too hard to write... :-) That said, I doubt I'd use it. I rarely even use occur -- and when I'm doing multi-file things I almost always also want to search the files in my project that I'm not visiting. Tom