emacs: interactively search open buffers

Question

Is there a way to search all the open buffers for a particular pattern?

C-s interactively searches current buffer. Similarly, is there something that searches all th

Answer 1

Taking a clue from Leo's comment to Bozhidar:

(defun my-isearch-buffers ()
  "isearch multiple buffers."
  (interactive)
  (multi-isearch-buffers
   (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (buf)
                       (set-buffer buf)
                       (and (not (equal major-mode 'dired-mode))
                            (not (string-match "^[ *]" (buffer-name buf)))
                            buf))
                     (buffer-list)))))

You might have to tweak the conditions inside the and to filter whatever other kinds of buffers you want to ignore.