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Re: How to search all open buffers?
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Emilio Lopes |
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Re: How to search all open buffers? |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:35:54 +0200 |
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Eric Hanchrow writes:
>>>>>> "kj" == kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:
kj> What's the Emacs command to search for a string in all the open
kj> buffers?
> As far as I know, the only way to do it is
> M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers RET . RET your-search-string RET
> which is not only awkward, but I swear sometimes it's failed to find
> hits that I know where present.
Maybe because it matches by default against *visited* file names; if
you buffer isn't visiting any file, you lose. If you want the regexp
to match against buffer names you need to specify a prefix argument.
Yes, its name is deceiving and the sense of the prefix argument should
probably be inverted. I've just reported a bug.
> A more reliable, but even more awkward way, is
> M-x ibuffer RET * * RET t O your-search-string RET
I find this more comfortable indeed, since you can mark the buffers
you care about in different ways (by mode, by name, ...).
--
Emílio C. Lopes
Munich, Germany
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, (continued)
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- Re: How to search all open buffers?, kj, 2007/08/30
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/08/30
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/08/30
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, Eric Hanchrow, 2007/08/30
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/08/31
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, Eric Hanchrow, 2007/08/31
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/08/31
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