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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Boylan, Ross" <Ross.Boylan@ucsf.edu>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Unable to match octal character
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:34:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4bd561f-2e66-4c4b-beb7-8742dcc27f8d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1F13E14A610474196571953929C02090C0CBA01@ex08.net.ucsf.edu>

> I have a file with some characters that display in the emacs buffer as
> \203.  Yet when I search for that, using C-s C-q 203 <ret> I can't match it.
> Likewise if I use search and replace.

Works for me.  Do you see the same thing if you start Emacs using
`emacs -Q' (no init file)?

What happens if you do this, starting from emacs -Q:

1. In *scratch*, move point into the text somewhere and use
   `C-q 203 RET' to insert the \203 character.

2. `M-<'

3. `C-s C-q 2 0 3 RET'



  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-13 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-13 20:22 Unable to match octal character Boylan, Ross
2016-04-13 20:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-13 20:52   ` Boylan, Ross
2016-04-13 21:07     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-13 21:14       ` Boylan, Ross
     [not found] <mailman.396.1460578945.7477.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-04-13 20:48 ` Ben Bacarisse

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