From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Saklad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?... Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:29 -0400 Message-ID: <5iip4ezdo6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83txnyzg5z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364291869 10383 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2013 09:57:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:57:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, dsaklad@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 26 10:58:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKQdw-0001CA-Er for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:58:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKQdY-0003zX-Cv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKQdH-0003ps-Dx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKQdG-0004V4-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKQdG-0004Uz-2p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from dsaklad by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKQdF-0002LG-KJ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:57:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83txnyzg5z.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:03:36 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89760 Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> In RMAIL how do you search for messages with a particular string?... >> ESC-s didn't work ! > ESC-s or M-s do work for me. What "didn't work" for you, exactly? Wrong type argument: listp, 40 a) Any idea what that means?... b) why did it appear? > One possible gotcha is that you need to go to the first message in the > folder (C-u 1 j) before starting the search, because M-s searches > forward from the current message.