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## Summary

Now you have learned to search through several buffers at once using different tools, each one perfect for its specific task: Tags searching makes it easy to jump from match to match, whereas igrep.el makes it easy to get an overview of matches in several buffers. Furthermore, TAGS searches make it easy to jump to the definition of a function, for example.

In this hour, you have also learned two different mechanisms for setting marks in buffers, which you can return to later. One mechanism is for multisessions; the other isn't. In one of the methods you must name your marks, although this is unnecessary in the other.

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