Re: How to search through all buffers?

[John Russell]

John Paul Wallington <jpw@gnu.org> writes:

> I misread `occur-read-primary-args'; this is cleaner:
> 
> (defun hanchrow-all-encompassing-occur (regexp &optional hidden-bufs-too)
>   "Show all lines in all visible buffers containing a match for REGEXP.
> With prefix arg HIDDEN-BUFS-TOO, show lines matching in all buffers."
>   (interactive (occur-read-primary-args))
>   (multi-occur (if hidden-bufs-too
>                  (buffer-list)
>                (delq nil
>                      (mapcar (lambda (buf)
>                                (unless (string-match "^ " (buffer-name buf))
>                                  buf))
>                              (buffer-list))))
>              regexp))

Wow, and I had never even heard of occur before.  This function is
great. Thanks.