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Questions about search mechanics inside of Emacs.

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How do I find text across many open buffers?

Lets say I have 10 buffers open, and I want to find all occurrences of blah in all 10 buffers. How would I do this?
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What is the easiest way to search all useful files inside a single project?

What is the easiest way to search for a regexp throughout the contents all files in the current project, skipping files that are not useful? Useless files are things like compiled files, imported libraries, version-control files, etc. I’m aware of…
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Match two spaces with incremental search

When searching using: C-s SPC SPC Also matches single spaces. I want to match exactly two space.
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Counsel M-x always shows "^"

I installed Counsel/Ivy/Swiper and so far everything works fine. But when I call counsel-M-x via key bind M-x an "^" char is always added. I have no clue why this is happening and how to get rid of it (it does not interfere with the counsel-M-x…
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Getting number of occurrences, during incremental search (C-s / isearch-forward)

Inspired by modern browsers, I'd love to be able to see how many occurrences there are of some string, when I search for it – like the "10 of 37" at the top-right corner of the screenshot below. Is there a way of getting this in Emacs? Presumably,…
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Only show lines containing phrase/regex

I would like to see all the lines from the current buffer, that contain some phrase, or match regex. Example: My buffer: dam madam madam this is da m a dam 1 dam 2 dam pi dam 321:) is dam 2? Looking for dam. Result: dam madam dam 1 dam 2 dam…
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How to search the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual?

Sometimes describe- or apropos- are not enough. How can I search the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual (C-h i m elisp) from within emacs?
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Search for string ignoring new lines

I am used to writing files where paragraphs are split into several lines, e.g. with fill-column. When I search for a string (C-s) such as this is a long text, the search results would not return the locations where the string appears with a line…
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Helm: search within buffer feature?

A pretty basic Helm question. What is the Helm window/command/feature that lets us search for text (preferably using regexp) within any type of buffer (i.e., including read-only such as w3m)? In other words, I'm looking for Helm's equivalent of…
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helm-ag (or similar) find in javascript files only

I'd like to restrict find/grep to (say) only javascript files (mainly because that's what i do in "another editor"). Javascript files in my legacy Ruby-on-Rails project have one of these file extensions:- .js, .js.erb, .coffee, .js.coffee,…
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How to convert a series of lines into a working HTML list?

Right now, this is a task I find a lot easier in something like gedit, because I can just replace "\n" (the line break) with "\n
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    Search through the values of all variables in Emacs

    I'd like to find which variables contain a certain value. Is there a way to do a regex search through the values of every variable in Emacs?
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    How to search in multiple files with Emacs without grep?

    There is a folder with many sub-folders, files and I would like to search for a given piece of text in all of these files with Emacs on a Windows 10 machine. (I know about M-x grep, but it does not work in Windows environment.) Is there any way to…
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    How to search an Arabic word in text without its diacritics/accents?

    In Arabic as with some other languages there is what is called diacritics to enhance pronunciation. There is no convention on how many diacritics should be written for a single word. Some use the minimum (which I prefer) just enough to disambiguate…
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    Recursively find all files from a folder containing a regexp in the filename, using helm

    How can I find all files from a folder and its subfolders recursively, containing a regexp in the filename, using helm? For example: how to search for all files with the extension .el and containing the string dired in the directory emacs-24.3 its…
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