From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: henry atting Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replace placeholders Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:49:01 +0100 Organization: LiteraturLateNight Message-ID: <877i36obde.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> References: <873adxogmg.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> <87wsb8vx19.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236098459 16432 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2009 16:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 03 17:42:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LeXgv-0002Y5-77 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:42:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeXfa-0006le-0s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:40:38 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng2.de.kpn-eurorings.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: port-92-195-193-246.dynamic.qsc.de Original-X-Trace: online.de 1236095355 28809 92.195.193.246 (3 Mar 2009 15:49:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:49:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:R6etvu8fb9WkiJuntYRzcK7diFk= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167255 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62556 Archived-At: On Mo, Mär 02 2009, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 02.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb henry atting: > >> I simply typed \226 to `query-replace's prompt. > > > It should have been: C-q 2 2 6 – and sometimes > care needs to be taken: GNU Emacs 23.x (could be also 22.x) can be > set to accept hex (to input directly Unicode characters) and other > coding instead of octal. Now you have strings comprised of \, 2, and > 6. Yes, this works fine. Strange. After I eliminated all these placeholders (it is a *.tex file) I do not really miss anything in the PDF output, the source does not contain any letter with a circumflex. Anyway, for now I do not have to convert any other latin1 file. Thanks henry