Re: How to search all open buffers?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> > > > > > "kj" == kj  <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:
>
>     kj> Hi.  What's the Emacs command to search for a string in all
>     kj> the open buffers?  
>
> As far as I know, the only way to do it is
>
>         M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers RET . RET your-search-string RET
>
> which is not only awkward, but I swear sometimes it's failed to find
> hits that I know where present.
>
> A more reliable, but even more awkward way, is
>
>         M-x ibuffer RET * * RET t O your-search-string RET

There is a page here about similar things:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategorySearchAndReplace