From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jerry.nospam@theashergroup.com (Jerry Asher) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Searching for command options in man pages (searching for a hyphen not represented by ASCII 2d) Date: 20 Feb 2003 10:43:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <836fa09a.0302201043.2a6d948b@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045766787 5836 80.91.224.249 (20 Feb 2003 18:46:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18lviE-0001Vy-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lvhO-0005e9-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:45:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.3.55.171 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1045766621 23154 127.0.0.1 (20 Feb 2003 18:43:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2003 18:43:41 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110435 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6937 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6937 I like displaying man pages w/i emacs. At some point, these man pages started displayed fields in bold. I want to search for a switch option, but I can't because the damned hyphen is bolded. For instance, m-x man mv shows there is a -b option to mv. (never knew that). I cannot search for the -b. isearch-forward just beeps at me. In Red Hat (8.0 but I am pretty sure in 7.x as well), in emacs 21.2 hexl-mode shows the bolded hyphen is not ASCII 2D, but is represented by ASCII 92 (ex). It's not a hyphen, but it displays as a hyphen. A long switch option (--backup) is represented by 8892 (hex). How do I search for these characters? I note than in both NT Emacs (21.2) and in Cygwin (emacs 21.2), the hyphens are displayed in bold, and hexl shows they are all 2D (hex). Man is this annoying (m-x man annoying) How can I search my man pages in emacs? Thanks, Jerry jerry.nospam@nospam.theashergroup.com (Please reply to usenet and/or remove the .nospam in my email address)