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From: Tyler Spivey <tspivey@pcdesk.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Making re-search-forward search for \377
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:31:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzaqporw.fsf@pcdesk.net> (raw)

I'm having a hell of a time trying to get re-search-forward to find a
\377 character in my buffer. Here is what I've tried so far, using
*scratch*:

1. C-q 377 RET M-< RET
(re-search-forward "\377") C-x C-e - not found.
(re-search-forward "[press C-q 377]") C-x C-e - this works.
If I turn multibyte off with M-X toggle-enable-multibyte-characters,
none of these work. My eventual goal is to do this in an elisp program,
but I need to get the basics
reliably working first. I've tried string-{as,to,make}-multibyte on the
"\377", with no luck. I've read the info pages on coding systems and
such, but I'm not sure what I'm missing here.


             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-02  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02  7:31 Tyler Spivey [this message]
2008-11-02  8:45 ` Making re-search-forward search for \377 Xah
2008-11-02  9:12   ` Tyler Spivey
2008-11-02 18:10     ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-02 20:32     ` Xah
2008-11-02 22:35       ` Tyler Spivey
2008-11-03  4:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2743.1225686066.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-03  4:54       ` Tyler Spivey
2008-11-03 19:42         ` Eli Zaretskii

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