Ah, I realised what the problem is: I don't seem to be able to paste *any* text from the clipboard into isearch with C-y.
(I guess I've only tried this when I need to search for non-ascii characters, which is why I thought there was some connection with non-ascii characters.) On 30 January 2011 16:12, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:51:39PM -0600, Benjamin Slade wrote: > > I noticed that the search function (C-s) doesn't work on strings > containing > > certain characters (any non-ascii?), e.g. "Hwæt" or "tó" or "geþéön". > > > > If I try to yank/paste a string with such characters into the search > > minibuffer, it simply closes. > > > > > Tested with no problem. I tested by remapping my 'k' key to produce 'tó' > with: > > xmodmap -e 'keycode 0x2D = 0xf3' > > Ran a google search for "tó", and was able to use isearch on the accented > character on the results page. > > -- > John Foerch > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Slade Dept. of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [ http://www.jnanam.net/slade/ ] Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa (lingblog) - http://staefcraeft.blogspot.com The Babbage Files (techblog) - http://babbagefiles.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *प*रो ऽक्ष॑का*मा* हि *दे*वाः 'The gods love the obscure.' (Śatapathabrāmaṇa 6.1.1.2)
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