M-x occur-instant

Question

I like to do something equivalent to M-x occur in google-instant fashion. So as I type the regex, it will display all the matches. This would be little different compared to M-x iseaerch-forward-regexp, because the matches will be shown in different buffer, rather than same buffer.

Is there anything equivalent?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, check out ioccur.

Follow the links to the latest version, download the ioccur.el file to a directory where you put your Emacs packages (I use ~/emacs/lisp), and then add the following to your .emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/emacs/lisp")
(require 'ioccur)

Answer 2

Another option: Anything

Provides M-x anything-occur