paul@gill.UUCP (Paul Nordstrom) (08/25/89)
Within gnu emacs, is there a simple way to search for a string across *all* buffers currently loaded? I have looked with reasonable diligence through TFM and see no reference to such a function. If there is no standard way to do this, has anyone written a function to perform this type of search? Thanks in advance for any help with this question. -- Paul Nordstrom Gill & Co., L.P. uunet!gill!paul
wsd@cs.brown.edu (Wm. Scott `Spot' Draves) (08/25/89)
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.
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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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