emacs SearchBuffers

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Search through multiple (possibly all) buffers.

• Multi-Occur – batch search by regexp across any number of buffers, using a single regexp
• IciclesSearch – incrementally search (and replace) across any number of buffers or files, possibly using multiple regexps
• search-buffers – XEmacs only, included in edit-utils
• far-search-mode – incrementally search by regexp in all buffers
• moccur.el – ‘occur’ in all buffers
• color-moccur.el – extension of moccur – search files like `grep(-find)’ without ‘grep’ or ‘find’ commands – demo (flash)
• moccur-edit.el – with moccur-edit.el, you can edit the results in place after using ‘color-moccur’ – demo (flash)
• grep-buffers – grep-buffers.el
• igrep-visited-files – igrep.el
• GlobRep – edit ‘grep’ output to perform replacements on files

1. Multi-Occur
2. Search and Replace Using Icicles
3. search-buffers
4. moccur
5. color-moccur
   1. moccur-edit
   2. restrict moccur search to current major mode
6. grep-buffers
7. moccur-grep and moccur-grep-find
8. offby1's crude but effective method

Multi-Occur

Built into Emacs 23, this command can search any files or buffers matching a regexp for a particular regexp.

To select buffers to search individually:

To select files to search by regexp:

To select buffers to search by regexp:

Search and Replace Using Icicles

You can use Icicles to search any number of buffers – pick the buffers individually using completion, or pick all that match a regexp, or pick all. Similarly, you can pick files to open and search.

You can use multiple regexps for searching and change regexps on the fly (incrementally). See Icicles - Search Commands, Overview. Search-and-replace across multiple buffers or files, with complex replacement possibilities – see Icicles - Search-And-Replace.

search-buffers

M-x list-matches-in-buffers

Search all buffers for REGEXP and present matching lines like grep.

Sample

Screenshot

moccur

M-x moccur

Search all buffers that have a file name associated with them and present matching lines. And C-c C-c gets you to the occurence.

Sample

color-moccur

M-x moccur

Search all buffers that have a file name associated with them

C-u M-x moccur

Search all file buffers and not file buffers

M-x dmoccur

Search files in a directory like grep

C-u M-x dmoccur

Search files in the directory which is setted in your .emacs

dired-do-moccur, Buffer-menu-moccur,ibuffer-do-occur

can search from dired,buffer-menu,ibuffer

moccur is basis of color-moccur. You can search all buffers and matched line is displayed to other window.

Screenshot, searching for “setq match”:

moccur-split-word : non-nil means to input word splited by space. You can search “(setq ov (make-overlay (match-beginning 0)” by “setq match” or “match setq”. You don’t need to input complicated regexp.

Upperside:Search result buffer, lowerside:matched file buffer

moccur-edit

moccur-edit allows you to edit files by just editing the Moccur buffer of color-moccur.

Screenshot, where “ov” is replaced with “moccur-ov”:

restrict moccur search to current major mode

The following function does the same thing as moccur, but the search is restricted to buffers with the same major mode as the current buffer.

grep-buffers

M-x grep-buffers

This code lets you grep through all loaded buffers that have a file associated with them. It’s similar to ‘moccur’ and it’s many variants, but uses the standard compilation-mode interface, i.e. next-error, previous-error, etc. all work.

I have the same problem with symbol-near-point. Replacing it with symbol-at-point fixes problem. I’m using Emacs 22. -Petteri

Problem should be fixed now. -ScottFrazer

moccur-grep and moccur-grep-find

grep(-find) by elisp

M-x moccur-grep and input directory, regexp, filemask

In MiniBuffer, input directory

In minibuffer, input regexp and filemask. Last word is filemask.

M-x moccur-grep-find

How to use is same to M-x moccur-grep.

offby1's crude but effective method

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