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Title pretty much sums up the question. I am learning emacs and have all the basic commands mastered but I don't know how to achieve full text search yet

Hrishi
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    Not a direct answer to your question, but `M-x rgrep` can be quite useful. – Ben Aug 19 '13 at 10:40
  • possible duplicate of [Emacs: Is it possible to list all matching lines for a certain query string for marked files in dired?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16661371/emacs-is-it-possible-to-list-all-matching-lines-for-a-certain-query-string-for) – Mirzhan Irkegulov Mar 12 '14 at 11:28

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Use M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers. You can give a blank for the regexp. Then the expression.

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There are several good ways to do what you ask. This is a duplicate question. See:

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