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

This sort of does what you want, in that when you've come to the end of matches for the string/regexp you're searching for, the next search command will start in a new buffer.

(setq isearch-wrap-function 'isearch-bury-buffer-instead-of-wrap)
(defun isearch-bury-buffer-instead-of-wrap ()
  "bury current buffer, try to search in next buffer"
  (bury-buffer))

It doesn't switch to a different buffer when the search fails, and when you "back up" the search results by pressing , you won't pop back into the previous buffers searched.