Vim searching through all existing buffers

Question

When dealing with a single file, I\'m used to:

/blah
do some work
n
do some work
n
do some work

Suppose now I want to search for some pattern o

Answer 1

We can do this using vimgrep and searching across the argslist. But first let's populate our argslist with all our buffers:

:bufdo :args ## %

Now we can search in our argslist

:vimgrep /blah/ ##

Where % == the current filepath and ## == the arglist.

I recommend watching these vimcasts if you want to learn more: Populate the arglist, Search multiple files with vimgrep