From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:05:38 -0600 Message-ID: References: <874qbqjol4.fsf@jidanni.org> <87zmthcbih.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119562407 29712 80.91.229.2 (23 Jun 2005 21:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 23 23:33:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlZIt-0003Qg-2J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlZPl-0006ej-E6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlZPI-0006Vb-41 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlZPG-0006Ue-6Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlZMj-0005XX-Br for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DlYxx-0004gM-Qa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DlYnx-0004te-J9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:00:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:00:09 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:00:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87zmthcbih.fsf@jidanni.org> X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:12321 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:12321 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Eli> Can you tell why you need that? > > iconv said there was a problem at the 2345th character in that file > and I wanted to see what the file looked like around there. C-x RET c raw-text RET C-x C-f my_file.txt RET > Eli> use hexl-find-file for that. > > But then I can't see it in the native language I bet. Hexl mode displays each byte's corresponding character as well as its 2-digit hexadecimal value. > OK, next time I'll try dd(1). Yuck. -- Kevin Rodgers