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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-04-20 17:52:25 +0300 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-04-20 17:52:25 +0300 |
commit | aa03257cb341691562101fcae8a6d6d54d420a99 (patch) | |
tree | 115ed14a6e282cc04b31c3b064922ac3c7e67a62 /doc/emacs/dired.texi | |
parent | ce0d8c7f2d8187942a8b45c3a71c22c5f30fa37d (diff) | |
download | emacs-aa03257cb341691562101fcae8a6d6d54d420a99.tar.gz |
Clarify documentation of 'dired-mark-files-containing-regexp'
* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Marks vs Flags): Clarify that for files
visited in buffers, 'dired-mark-files-containing-regexp' searches
the buffer rather than the file on disk. (Bug#22694)
* lisp/dired.el (dired-mark-files-containing-regexp): Clarify that
for files visited in buffers, 'dired-mark-files-containing-regexp'
searches the buffer rather than the file on disk. (Bug#22694)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs/dired.texi')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi index 8a72805f7fc..ea48a26500c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi @@ -550,7 +550,13 @@ Mark (with @samp{*}) all files whose @emph{contents} contain a match for the regular expression @var{regexp} (@code{dired-mark-files-containing-regexp}). This command is like @kbd{% m}, except that it searches the file contents instead of the file -name. +name. Note that if a file is visited in an Emacs buffer, this command +will look in the buffer without revisiting the file, so the results +might be inconsistent with the file on disk if its contents has changed +since it was last visited. If you don't want this, you may wish +reverting the files you have visited in your buffers, or turning on +the @code{auto-revert} mode in those buffers, before invoking this +command. @xref{Reverting}. @item C-/ @itemx C-x u |