From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: acomber <deedexy@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I search for symbols such as \253 in Emacs
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:39:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5ifx791.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1352201029905-268928.post@n5.nabble.com> (acomber's message of "Tue, 6 Nov 2012 03:23:49 -0800 (PST)")
acomber <deedexy@gmail.com> writes:
> I see the symbols as \253 (or whatever) in Emacs. But if I try to search for
> \253 (backslash then enter 253 it never finds them. But if I cut and yank
> one of the symbols it works. The trouble is the file I have is huge and
> finding these symbols is hard - even though I know what they are. I just
> can't enter them to search.
>
> How do I search for these?
It is difficult to remember codepoints, ain't it? May be use recursive
minibuffers with ucs-insert?
See http://irreal.org/blog/?p=1327
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-06 11:23 How do I search for symbols such as \253 in Emacs acomber
2012-11-06 11:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-11-06 18:19 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] ` <mailman.12407.1352225988.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-11-06 20:24 ` Peter
2012-11-06 21:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-06 12:09 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
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