From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:55:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafn0w329rj.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SUN.3.91.1020416113948.15724C-100000@is
eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:
> 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.
This command finds ä, too, even if it is displayed without \ on
screen. I presume it will also find a lot of other nonascii
characters.
Suppose you have a file which is mostly in the foo encoding, but
contains some bytes that are invalid in that encoding. I think this
is the situation Dan is talking about. He wants to find the invalid
bytes, IIUC.
Maybe it helps to try to save the buffer to a file, and let Emacs
complain about the character that couldn't be encoded using the
current coding system. But I'm not sure if that does the trick,
though.
kai
--
Silence is foo!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-16 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-16 2:24 user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Dan Jacobson
2002-04-16 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 10:55 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-04-16 11:57 ` Heinrich Rommerskirchen
2002-04-16 13:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 14:41 ` Heinrich Rommerskirchen
2002-04-16 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 13:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-18 2:15 ` Dan Jacobson
2002-04-18 9:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 11:36 ` David Kastrup
2002-04-16 11:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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