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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 19924@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: vose@eecs.utk.edu
Subject: bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:54:55 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c23a8302-3be6-46f1-aa91-cbb5c8b85f26@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3thep3z.fsf@eecs.utk.edu>

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Forwarding - The OP (Michael) left off the bug list as recipient.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vose@eecs.utk.edu [mailto:vose@eecs.utk.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 2:33 PM
> To: schwab@linux-m68k.org; Drew Adams
> Cc: vose@eecs.utk.edu
> Subject: RE: bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character
> 
> I appologize for not being able to understand the emails youall passed
> my way.  Here is the situation:
> 
> 1) I bring up emacs : emacs -Q
> 
> 2) I open DPaddy's file : Control x f ~/Downloads/feb17/emacs-broken
> 
> 3) I see \213 in the buffer (see screenshot-1.jpg).
> 
> 4) I type : `C-s C-q 213 C-q' (i.e., Control s Control q 213 Control s)
>    but the search fails (see screenshot-2.jpg)
> 
> 4) I type : `C-s C-q 213 ret' (i.e., Control s Control q 213 return)
>    and get the same behavior (same as screenshot-2.jpg).
> 
> 6) I type `M-x hexl-mode ret' (i.e., Meta x hexl-mode return) and see
>    octal 213 (i.e., hex 8B) is in the buffer (see screenshot-3.jpg).
> 
> I anticipate that the following is an explanation of some kind:
> 
>  "As the screenshot shows, the problem is that the search doesn't find
>   the character 213 in the `no-conversion' (binary) buffer, because
>   there is a mismatch between the coding of the buffer and the search."
> 
> But I don't know what the above means.  In particular, I don't know how
> to search for octal 213.  Given my current (lack of) understanding, it
> seems that emacs is broken, or searching in octal is not possible.
> 
> Please give a(nother) clue...
> 
> Much obliged,
> 
> Michael
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-22 19:13 bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character vose
2015-02-22 22:02 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-22 23:03   ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-23  0:22     ` Drew Adams
2015-02-23 11:43       ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-23 15:13         ` Drew Adams
2015-02-23 19:16           ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-05 22:54 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-03-06 14:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-21 16:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found] <<87r3thep3z.fsf@eecs.utk.edu>
     [not found] ` <<c23a8302-3be6-46f1-aa91-cbb5c8b85f26@default>
     [not found]   ` <<83wq2umawy.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-03-06 16:27     ` Drew Adams
2015-03-06 16:33       ` Dani Moncayo
2015-03-06 16:36         ` Drew Adams
2015-03-06 19:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<83dbd618-1126-4b4e-a0e2-274e2494ae44@default>
     [not found] ` <<83twxylyq3.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-03-06 19:42   ` Drew Adams

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