Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:59 PM,  <rasmith@tamu.edu> wrote:
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: search-forward in emacs23 lisp
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:10:59 +0200
>
>
>> Oh, sorry. I read your first message now. It looks like you have found
>> a problem with search-forward in this case and a bug in isearch. I
>> suggest that you file a bug report.
>
> And as one last addition, I don't think there's any problem with
> isearch: C-s C-q 3 7 7 finds byte 255 with no problem at all.  The bug
> (if that's what it is) is in search-forward.

The isearch-forward doc string says

   Type C-q to quote control character to search for it.

Here you are searching for a byte, not a character. So I think it is a bug.

But maybe you do not want to file a bug report for this?