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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <f92capac@gmail.com>
Cc: 23734@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23734: 25.1.50; ibuffer: Search a buffer by content
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:24:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qstwh22s2u.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1606091517420.25155@calancha-ilc.kek.jp> (Tino Calancha's message of "Thu, 9 Jun 2016 15:19:05 +0900 (JST)")

Tino Calancha wrote:

> It's commun one Emacs session having dozens of buffers on memory. On
> such situation, it is hard to remember the name of one particular
> buffer.
>
> It may be useful having easy way to search buffers by content.

multi-occur can do this kind of thing.

> For example, one user is developping a funtion foo
> in the buffer BUF, with name BUF-NAME:
>
> foo-type foo (bar)
>
> The user may not remember BUF-NAME, but s/he could be able
> to write a regexp matching just the content of BUF.
> For instance, something like
> "foo (bar)"
> likely would match just BUF content (or a few buffers more).


C-u M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers RET . RET foo (bar) RET





  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-09 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-09  6:19 bug#23734: 25.1.50; ibuffer: Search a buffer by content Tino Calancha
2016-06-09 17:24 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2016-06-09 17:28   ` Glenn Morris
2016-06-10  9:20     ` Tino Calancha
2016-06-15  4:33     ` C. Calancha
     [not found]   ` <CAMn5WmaW1RYx=b-6_M21ko-Zwj8a_SRD82yQny-44Df49E4Yrw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-10  9:17     ` Tino Calancha
2016-07-03  6:13 ` bug#23734: (no subject) Tino Calancha

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