GNU bug report logs - #19924
24.4; incremental search for octal character

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: vose <at> eecs.utk.edu

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 21:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 19924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: vose <at> eecs.utk.edu, 19924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#19924: 24.4; incremental search for octal character
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:42:42 -0800 (PST)

> > > It means that we have a missing feature: we don't have any reasonable
> > > way of typing unibyte characters at Isearch's prompt.  We need to
> > > provide one.
> >
> > Huh? AFAIK, since Emacs 24.4 you can use `C-x 8 RET' to append a
> > Unicode char to the search string.
> 
> Raw bytes are not Unicode characters.

Sorry, I misread "unibyte characters" as "Unicode characters" in
what you wrote.  Please ignore.
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