[gnu.emacs.bug] regular expression search does not work on meta characters

mjab@THINK.COM (02/03/89)

My files have a lot of characters with the 8th bit on (they are APL
programs in a 256 character alphabet).  re-search-forward fails to find
patterns involving the meta characters (except for the trivial pattern of a
single character -- that does work).  I have tried various alternatives
like making a complement character set [^^A-^?] and so on, but none of them
work.

I have earlier reported a related bug with incremental search.  One cannot
search for strings containing meta characters with incremental search
although non-incremental search works fine.


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