From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Spivey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Making re-search-forward search for \377 Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:31:31 -0700 Message-ID: <87tzaqporw.fsf@pcdesk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225637213 16723 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2008 14:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:46:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 02 15:47:56 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KweF8-0003yP-2G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:47:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46260 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KweE1-00088q-EC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:46:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe01.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tVzV/B3jbdBXhCO+w5Fg4UtfsNI= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.68.146.221 Original-X-Complaints-To: internet.abuse@sjrb.ca Original-X-Trace: newsfe01.iad 1225611091 70.68.146.221 (Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:31:31 UTC) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:31:31 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164012 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:46:07 -0500 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:59356 Archived-At: 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.