From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: hexl-mode: searching for multi byte sequence?
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:07:47 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fv4rfc8s.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ZEhx4-0004U8-Ex@fencepost.gnu.org>
Alfred M. Szmidt writes:
> Is there some way in hexl-mode to search for a (hex, octal, ...) byte
> sequence? Currently, C-s behaves a bit strange in at least two regards:
>
> 1) If file contains the byte sequence #xDEADBEAF, depending on how
> they are aligned (odd or even word), one has to look for "DEAD
> BEAF" and "DE ADBE AF".
C-u C-s de\(.\n\)*ad\(.\|\n\)*be\(.\|\n\)*af
is what I'd use. It has obvious defects, and it would be nice if
hexl-mode provided something a little less greedy (eg a transformation
to a 3-armed disjunction allowing at most one newline plus handling
the leading byte number after the newline).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-13 17:55 hexl-mode: searching for multi byte sequence? Alfred M. Szmidt
2015-07-14 7:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2015-07-14 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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