From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Date: 16 Apr 2002 10:24:28 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: jidanni@yam.com.tw NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018941668 22083 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 07:21:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:21:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16xNH1-0005k4-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:21:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xNH8-0005wp-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from dfw7-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.106]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xMHp-0000YM-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 02:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by dfw7sosrv11.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmkuj23663 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 06:17:51 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:17:49 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:17:49 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-47-122.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 24 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-47-122.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.47.122) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018937869 2903682 61.227.47.122 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:693 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:693 The user is given no easy way to search for those \333 binary things that he sees on his screen. "Deep in my file there is some binary character[s] that are messing up my life. I must page thru the whole file looking around for their \xxx butts, as emacs won't just let me do C-s \, which would find them right away, if what we see is what we search." Istead, emacs probably wants me to do things a complicated way, doing C-s C-q followed by the exact character, which I don't know until I've seen it, or emacs probably wants me to specify a range in a regular expression, which would be "all the characters that still cause a \xxx on the screen even when in when in some Chinese mode etc. that encompasses most of them..." Anyway, the user sees a \. The user wants to hunt for a \. The user must have a Ph.D. to hunt for a \. Wait. Do emacs -nw file, somehow paste the whole buffer into the x-windows mouse cut and paster, or xclip, then paste the file into another file and then search :-( By the way, the \xxx's are still octal. Isn't today a hexy world? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780