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bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:54:55 -0800 (PST) |
Forwarding - The OP (Michael) left off the bug list as recipient.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vose@eecs.utk.edu [mailto:vose@eecs.utk.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 2:33 PM
> To: schwab@linux-m68k.org; Drew Adams
> Cc: vose@eecs.utk.edu
> Subject: RE: bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character
>
> I appologize for not being able to understand the emails youall passed
> my way. Here is the situation:
>
> 1) I bring up emacs : emacs -Q
>
> 2) I open DPaddy's file : Control x f ~/Downloads/feb17/emacs-broken
>
> 3) I see \213 in the buffer (see screenshot-1.jpg).
>
> 4) I type : `C-s C-q 213 C-q' (i.e., Control s Control q 213 Control s)
> but the search fails (see screenshot-2.jpg)
>
> 4) I type : `C-s C-q 213 ret' (i.e., Control s Control q 213 return)
> and get the same behavior (same as screenshot-2.jpg).
>
> 6) I type `M-x hexl-mode ret' (i.e., Meta x hexl-mode return) and see
> octal 213 (i.e., hex 8B) is in the buffer (see screenshot-3.jpg).
>
> I anticipate that the following is an explanation of some kind:
>
> "As the screenshot shows, the problem is that the search doesn't find
> the character 213 in the `no-conversion' (binary) buffer, because
> there is a mismatch between the coding of the buffer and the search."
>
> But I don't know what the above means. In particular, I don't know how
> to search for octal 213. Given my current (lack of) understanding, it
> seems that emacs is broken, or searching in octal is not possible.
>
> Please give a(nother) clue...
>
> Much obliged,
>
> Michael
>
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- bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character,
Drew Adams <=