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On 16 Apr 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Anyway, the user sees a \.  The user wants to hunt for a \.  The user
> must have a Ph.D. to hunt for a \. 

Not really.  `M-: (skip-chars-forward "\000-\177") RET' will do.  
Wrapping this into a simple user command is left as an exercise for the 
interested reader.