Subject: Re: bug#6283: doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code `0377' correct?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 21:10:46 +0300

> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:28:16 -0400
> From: MON KEY <[email-masked]>
> Cc: 
> 
> In doc/lispref/searching.texi is the following reference to octal code
> `0377' correct?
> 
> ,----
> | You cannot always match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters with the
> | regular expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}.  This works when searching a
> | unibyte buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a
> | multibyte buffer or string, because many non-@acronym{ASCII}
> | characters have codes above octal 0377.  {....}
> `---- :FILE doc/lispref/searching.texi  (info "(elisp)Regexp Special")
> 
> Shouldn't that be:
> 
> "characters have codes above octal #o377"

What's the difference between what's written and what you suggest?