Re: emacs in text mode terminal paste problem (SecureCRT / xterm )

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 23.11.2008 um 00:14 schrieb emacsuser@invalid.org:

> An apostrophe that get pasted appears to invoke "Regexp I-search  
> backward" somehow.
> The search of course usually fails, because it can't find all of the
> text that follows.


The so-called apostrophes from MS Word could be single quote  
characters from the area UTF+201x. Maybe it works to C-q in some  
(*scratch*) buffer and then paste just that "apostrophe." You might  
see the bytes that would be actually inserted. The three bytes of  
UTF-8 representation (E2 80 99 for ’, RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK)  
can be interpreted as this: E2 is in 7-bit idiom C-r (single 8th bit  
set + remainder r), the other two bytes can be any 7-bit rubbish.

GNU Emacs offers some "translations" for X selections – lookup info!  
X11 also has some configuration options. A better option is to  
upgrade to GNU Emacs 22.3.

--
Greetings

  Pete

Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one  
that corrupts your file?
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