Hi Emilio, On 2005-06-29, Emilio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Braennstroem <fab <at> ddorf.de> writes: > > > I wonder if there exist any package that filters out some > > information about certain files using dired and display > > those in a separate buffer. > > I mean I would like to extract lines with certain keywords > > (e.g. fluid and turbulence) or special lines from the file > > which is currently 'active' in dired. It is probably similar > > to some mbox filtering. And more advanced: if two files are > > 'active/marked' then show the infos in separate windows and > > highlight the differences (probably like ediff-buffers). > > Do you know about `occur', `multi-occur' and `dired-do-igrep' > (from igrep.el)? They should be a good starting point.
No, never heard of occur and my first attempt to use the igrep did not work. Thanks, I will take a look at it. Greetings, Fabian _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
