From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 08:27:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <83dbd618-1126-4b4e-a0e2-274e2494ae44@default> References: <<87r3thep3z.fsf@eecs.utk.edu>> <> <<83wq2umawy.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425659305 12709 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2015 16:28:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: vose@eecs.utk.edu, 19924@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 06 17:28:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6g-0003Rt-MW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:28:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6f-000163-Ur for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6b-00015w-3m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6Y-0007xQ-CC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:39104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6Y-0007xE-8O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6X-0001wT-SS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:28:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:28:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19924 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19924-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19924.14256592657436 (code B ref 19924); Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:28:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19924) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Mar 2015 16:27:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37672 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6G-0001vr-KW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:27:44 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:48133) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YTv6E-0001vb-6x for 19924@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t26GRYFZ011707 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:27:35 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t26GRXJO028065 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:27:34 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0017.oracle.com (abhmp0017.oracle.com [141.146.116.23]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t26GRXhf026462; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 16:27:33 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83wq2umawy.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:100169 Archived-At: > It means that we have a missing feature: we don't have any reasonable > way of typing unibyte characters at Isearch's prompt. We need to > provide one. There was such a kludgey feature in the past, but it > conflicted with a much more useful possibility of inserting Unicode > codepoints with C-q, and so the kludge was deleted in one of the > previous versions. We need to restore it, at least for when Isearch > was initiated from a unibyte buffer. Huh? AFAIK, since Emacs 24.4 you can use `C-x 8 RET' to append a Unicode char to the search string. I don't have a recent dev build (since Oct. 2014), but in 24.4 that certainly works. (Dunno about using a unibyte buffer, though, so maybe I'm missing your point. In `emacs -Q' (GUI, not terminal), it works fine for me. If you have the Unicode character in the kill ring then you can also use `M-y'. And you can also use `M-e' followed by `C-x 8 RET', of course.