Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!brunix!doorknob!wsd From: wsd@cs.brown.edu (Wm. Scott `Spot' Draves) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Multi-Buffer search? Message-ID: Date: 24 Aug 89 23:37:22 GMT References: <668@gill.UUCP> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Followup-To: comp.emacs Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 16 In-reply-to: paul@gill.UUCP's message of 24 Aug 89 19:56:21 GMT In article <668@gill.UUCP> paul@gill.UUCP (Paul Nordstrom) writes: Within gnu emacs, is there a simple way to search for a string across *all* buffers currently loaded? I have looked with reasonable Although not exactly what you ask for, the tags routines might help. They operate on a bunch of buffers at once: tags-search and tags-query-replace perform the expected operations. The limitation is that a TAGS file must have been created for all the files you want to search. This is done with the etags program, which comes in the etc directory of gnuemacs. TAGS files are just great when you have a directory with a bunch of source code in it. - - - - - - - - - - Scott Draves | Space... The Final Frontier wsd@cs.brown.edu | uunet!brunix!wsd wsd@browncs.bitnet Box 2555 Brown U Prov RI 02912