From: vose@eecs.utk.edu
To: 19924@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:13:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3thep3z.fsf@eecs.utk.edu> (raw)
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This bug -- PROBLEM 2 -- is being reported on behalf of D. Paddy
(I was unable to help solve the issue).
D. Paddy writes:
TWO (2) problems; for both I follow the GNU Emacs manual from
"https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html"
PROBLEM 1: The following is quoted from page 91:
"To search for non-ASCII characters, use one of the following methods:
• Type C-q, followed by a non-graphic character or a sequence of octal
digits."
In my case I typed C-q, followed by 213 and then return (the enter key).
Rather than searching, the octal character \213 is inserted into the
file.
PROBLEM 2: Vose conjectured that the manual was simply mistaken, and
should have said something closer to: To search for an octal character,
type C-s C-q, followed by a sequence of octal digits.
In my case I typed C-s C-q, followed by 213 and then return (the enter
key). Rather than searching, the message "Failing I-search: \213" was
displayed (see attached screen shot).
Vose suggested: M-x search-forward return C-q 213 return return
but that likewise fails.
Vose suggested: M-x find-file-literally, but the same problem occurs.
If this is a feature of emacs or of the documentation, then please
respond to the following plea for charity: exactly what buttons of the
keyboard do I press to successfully search for octal 213 ? And if
instead there is no problem because octal 213 is not really in the file
after all -- dispite what the screenshot seems to indicate -- and so
therefore searching for it *should fail*, then how do I change my .emacs
file so that emacs will stop lying to me about file contents? As noted
above, the same problem occurs with M-x find-file-literally, i.e., the
buffer seems to contain octal 213 (same screen shot) but searching for
it fails.
Much obliged.
D. Paddy
P.S. The above was all using emacs -Q
In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
of 2015-02-09 on blackbox
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version
11.0.11502000
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-dependency-tracking
--disable-silent-rules --libdir=/usr/lib64
--program-suffix=-emacs-24
--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-24 --localstatedir=/var
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--with-gameuser=games --without-compress-install
--with-file-notification=inotify --enable-acl --without-dbus
--without-gnutls --without-gpm --without-hesiod --without-kerberos
--without-kerberos5 --without-xml2 --without-selinux
--without-wide-int
--with-zlib --with-sound=no --with-x --without-ns --without-gconf
--without-gsettings --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-gif
--with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg --with-tiff --with-xpm
--with-imagemagick --without-xft --without-libotf
--without-m17n-flt
--with-x-toolkit=no GENTOO_PACKAGE=app-editors/emacs-24.4-r1
'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=native' CPPFLAGS= 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1
-Wl,--as-needed''
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Fundamental
Minor modes in effect:
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<help-echo> m p e g <return> <help-echo> C-x b <return>
C-x C-s C-x k <return> C-x b <return> C-x k <return>
C-x b <return> C-x k <return> C-x b <return> C-x b
<return> C-q 2 7 3 C-g C-g C-g C-g C-s C-q 2 7 3 <return>
C-g C-g C-g C-_ C-s C-q 2 7 2 <return> C-g C-g C-g
C-g C-s C-q 2 7 2 C-s C-x k <return> C-x C-f v i <tab>
d <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> D o <tab> w n <tab> v <backspace> f <tab>
7 <tab> v i <tab> <return> y C-g C-x C-f <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> D o <tab> w <tab> f e <tab> 7 <tab> q .
<tab> <tab> <return> C-s C-q 2 4 4 C-s C-g C-g C-g
C-s C-q 2 4 4 <return> C-g C-g C-s C-q \ 2 4 4 C-s
M-< <help-echo> C-s C-q 2 1 3 <return> C-g <help-echo>
<down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5>
<mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5>
<double-down-mouse-5> <double-mouse-5> <down-mouse-4>
<mouse-4> <double-down-mouse-4> <double-mouse-4> <down-mouse-4>
<mouse-4> <double-down-mouse-4> <double-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4>
<triple-mouse-4> <triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4>
<triple-down-mouse-4> <triple-mouse-4> C-a C-n C-k
C-a C-n C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_
C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_
C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-a C-l C-n C-l <help-echo> C-a C-s
C-q 2 1 3 <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-< M-<
C-x k <return> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <emacs-tutorial>
C-s b u g s <backspace> C-s C-s M-< <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<emacs-tutorial> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emac
s-bug-report>
Recent messages:
Making completion list...
Quit [3 times]
Mark saved where search started
Mark set
byte-code: Beginning of buffer [2 times]
Undo! [6 times]
user-error: No further undo information [17 times]
Mark set [2 times]
Preparing tutorial ...
Mark saved where search started
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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mail-prsvr mail-utils tutorial hexl eldoc help-fns mule-util help-mode
easymenu ispell misearch multi-isearch tex-mode compile shell pcomplete
comint ansi-color ring latexenc site-gentoo time-date tooltip electric
uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar
dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode
prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev
minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
inotify dynamic-setting x multi-tty emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 92178 45039)
(symbols 48 19342 12)
(miscs 40 94 665)
(strings 32 14527 24688)
(string-bytes 1 17114196)
(vectors 16 16163)
(vector-slots 8 1058778 186848)
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(buffers 960 23)
(heap 1024 70663 70634))
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next reply other threads:[~2015-02-22 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-22 19:13 vose [this message]
2015-02-22 22:02 ` bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character Drew Adams
2015-02-22 23:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-23 0:22 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-23 11:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-23 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-23 19:16 ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-05 22:54 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-06 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-21 16:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] <<87r3thep3z.fsf@eecs.utk.edu>
[not found] ` <<c23a8302-3be6-46f1-aa91-cbb5c8b85f26@default>
[not found] ` <<83wq2umawy.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-03-06 16:27 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-06 16:33 ` Dani Moncayo
2015-03-06 16:36 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-06 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <<83dbd618-1126-4b4e-a0e2-274e2494ae44@default>
[not found] ` <<83twxylyq3.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-03-06 19:42 ` Drew Adams
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