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Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp
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Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:50:46 +0200 |
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:39 PM, <rasmith@tamu.edu> wrote:> Sorry to
reply to my own post, but the following rather ugly solution
> solves the problem of finding a single FF byte:
> (while (/= (char-after) ?\377)
> (forward-char 1)
> )
> (forward-char 1)
> This replaces
> (search-forward (unibyte-string ?\377))
> which, in emacs23, no matter what I do, insists on turning the byte
> into the two-byte string \231\277 before searching.
>
> But surely there's a better way?
Hi Robin,
Someone else knows this much better than me and can explain the
details, but I believe that unibyte-string is a low level function
that you do not need here.
How about just
(search-forward (char-to-string ?\377))
or (search-forward (char-to-string 255))
Does that work for you?
- search-forward in emacs23 lisp, rasmith, 2010/03/28
- Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, rasmith, 2010/03/28
- Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, rasmith, 2010/03/28
- Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/28
- Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, rasmith, 2010/03/28
- Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, rasmith, 2010/03/28
- Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, Lennart Borgman, 2010/03/28
Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, Peter Dyballa, 2010/03/28
Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp, Johan Bockgård, 2010/03/28