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Hi Emilio,

On 2005-06-29, Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net> wrote:
>  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.

No, never heard of occur and my first attempt to use the igrep did not work.
Thanks, I will take a look at it.

Greetings, Fabian