From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to match octal character Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:48:45 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87wpo1xmj6.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464881255 10950 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 15:27:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:27:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 17:27:34 2016 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 1b8UWx-0000iJ-9p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:27:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8UWw-0008U3-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:27:30 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder1.xsusenet.com!feeder2.usenet.farm!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="017616aa25f81ec581c44d76d61ba2f3"; logging-data="855"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/vyQ2XmqnTwsP2bO5wCEvJ8JnqA2UHEO8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:i+X16Xrs6tLtQIP+iWXqtZUNEqY= sha1:1DPgN5gizemHSSjdeiNgDGG0EdM= X-BSB-Auth: 1.d0ef0a509116f6931eab.20160413214845BST.87wpo1xmj6.fsf@bsb.me.uk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217466 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110173 Archived-At: "Boylan, Ross" writes: > I have a file with some characters that display in the emacs buffer as > \203. Yet when I search for that, using C-s C-q 203 I can't > match it. Likewise if I use search and replace. What is the value of the read-quoted-char-radix variable? -- Ben.