Re: dired and multi-occur

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

> Dirk80 wrote:
>> I would like to search a string through multiple files. I like multi-occur a
>> lot. It would be great if it is possible to combine dired and multi-occur. I
>> want that multi-occur is applied to all marked files.
>
> Why not:
>
> ,----[ C-h k A ]
> | A runs the command dired-do-search
> |   which is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `dired-aux'.
> | It is bound to A, <menu-bar> <operate> <search>.
> | (dired-do-search regexp)
> |
> | Search through all marked files for a match for regexp.
> | Stops when a match is found.
> | To continue searching for next match, use command M-,.
> `----

Also, traverselisp.el does all that and anything-traverse.el does that
incrementally. See:
http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/traverselisp

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A + Thierry Volpiatto
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