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Re: How to search all open buffers?
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Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: How to search all open buffers? |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:12:48 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:46:27 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> I run into this *all* the time: I've been coding for several days,
>> working on 20-30 files simultaneously, and I need to get back to
>> the one among these many buffers that contains a particular string
>> or regex.
>
> Then just search the files for that regex, e.g. with the Dired's `A'
> command. Emacs will notice when a particular file is already in a
> buffer and will search that buffer instead.
But the A (dired-do-search) key seems to work only for the files which
are present in the current Dired buffer not necessarily for all opened
buffers.
Wouldn't be--in this context--dired-do-search in the buffer *Buffer
List* a better idea (if it only were available there)?
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, (continued)
- RE: How to search all open buffers?, Drew Adams, 2007/08/27
- Re: How to search all open buffers?, kj, 2007/08/28
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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 <=
- 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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