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* user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them
@ 2002-04-16  2:24 Dan Jacobson
  2002-04-16  8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Dan Jacobson @ 2002-04-16  2:24 UTC (permalink / raw)


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

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2002-04-16  2:24 user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Dan Jacobson
2002-04-16  8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 10:55   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 11:57     ` Heinrich Rommerskirchen
2002-04-16 13:52       ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 14:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 14:41         ` Heinrich Rommerskirchen
2002-04-16 18:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 12:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 13:56       ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-18  2:15         ` Dan Jacobson
2002-04-18  9:42           ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 11:36   ` David Kastrup
2002-04-16 11:57     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 14:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 12:32     ` Eli Zaretskii

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