Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp

[Lennart Borgman]

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?