What is the emacs command to do full text search across all open buffers? like sublimetext's command+shift+f?

Question

Title pretty much sums up the question. I am learning emacs and have all the basic commands mastered but I don't know how to achieve full text search yet

Coelenterate

Not a direct answer to your question, but M-x rgrep can be quite useful. – Ixion

possible duplicate of Emacs: Is it possible to list all matching lines for a certain query string for marked files in dired? – Cytochemistry

Answer 1

Use M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers. You can give a blank for the regexp. Then the expression.

Melaniemelanin

Answer 2

There are several good ways to do what you ask. This is a duplicate question. See:

• Emacs: Is it possible to list all matching lines for a certain query string for marked files in dired?
• Sublime Text 2's "Goto Anything" (or instant search) for Emacs?

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