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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: "org-mode mailing list" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, 노정태 <basil83@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Search files in a folder
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:51:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oduqul6.fsf@archdesk.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739teiwsq.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:31:01 +0100")

Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:11:48 +0900, 노정태 <basil83@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to search org files in my /org folder.
>> But I can't find a command to search files wholly.
>> C-c a s (org-search-view) does search only with headline.
>> I can't search the contents of my org files with just one command.
>> 
>> Does Org-mode have the function what I'm looking for?
>
> maybe org-mode does not but of course emacs does: M-x grep RET
> or M-x occur RET
>

These work just fine. Org-mode also has a built-in interface to emacs'
multi-occur function --- it searches for (and displays) all lines
containing a given regexp in one's agenda files.[1]

Simply type:

C-c a / [regexp]

E.g.

C-c a / \(org\|org-\)mode


Best,
Matt

Footnotes:

[1] (info "(org) Agenda dispatcher")

,----
| `/'
|      Search for a regular expression in all agenda files and
|      additionally in the files listed in
|      `org-agenda-text-search-extra-files'.  This uses the Emacs command
|      `multi-occur'.  A prefix argument can be used to specify the
|      number of context lines for each match, default is 1.
`----

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-12 19:11 Search files in a folder 노정태
2010-09-12 19:31 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-09-12 20:29   ` suvayu ali
2010-09-13  1:51   ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-09-13  4:09     ` 노정태
2010-09-13  4:22       ` suvayu ali
2010-09-13  7:15         ` 노정태
2010-09-13 16:19           ` Matt Lundin
2010-09-14 16:06             ` 노정태
2010-09-20  8:31             ` Bastien

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