Re: 26.1.50; Emacs can't decode the text file on opening the file, but can decode it on revert-buffer

[Stephen Berman]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 22:39:45 +1300 Phil Sainty <address@hidden> wrote:

[...]
> If you can *see* an instance of the character already, you might just
> move point to that character and use C-s C-w (and maybe a bit of C-M-w
> if that grabs too many chars).                                   ^^^^^
[...]

This binding has changed (it keeps biting me too), see /etc/NEWS:
  
  * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 27.1
  [...]
  ** Search and Replace
  [...]
  *** New isearch bindings.
  
  'C-M-w' in isearch changed from isearch-del-char to the new function
  isearch-yank-symbol-or-char.  isearch-del-char is now bound to
  'C-M-d'.

Steve Berman