From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making re-search-forward search for \377 Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 01:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87tzaqporw.fsf@pcdesk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225618887 2168 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2008 09:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:41:27 +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 10:42:29 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 1KwZTY-0006iw-UX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:42:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35662 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KwZSS-0007De-5u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:41:20 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1225615558 3357 127.0.0.1 (2 Nov 2008 08:45:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164013 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:59354 Archived-At: On Nov 2, 12:31 am, Tyler Spivey wrote: > 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. what's the C-q 377 char? if i press Ctrl+q 377 Enter, i get this char: =C3=BF, which is LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS (unicode U+00FF). Then if i do: (re-search-forward "=C3=BF") =C3=BF it works perfectly. as far as my experience goes, the ease of programing with unicode in elisp beats Perl and Python hands down... Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84