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From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Multi-Buffer search?
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Date: 4 Sep 89 00:34:57 GMT
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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?

Not that I know.  But if the buffers can be associated with files, my
preferred way to this is to M-! execute:

	etags FILENAME...

to collect the file names into a TAGS file, then to do:

	M-x visit RET RET

to activate this TAGS file, and then:

	M-x tags-search RET pattern RET

to start the search.  M-, goes from one match to the next.
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Franc,ois Pinard                                    pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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