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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: replacing hexl-mode with nhexl-mode?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:08:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8335j6cxvt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nXdvN-0003aV-3Z@fencepost.gnu.org> (ams@gnu.org)

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:59:53 -0400
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> There seems like there is a tiny amount of work before this could
> straight up replace hexl-mode then.

Given what Stefan said:

> Indeed, `nhexl-mode` was not designed as a plug-in replacement for
> `hexl-mode`.

I'm not so sure that it's only a tiny amount of work.  Fixing design
problems never is, IME.  However, ...

> Not sure my table can fit this, but it sure would be a fun thing to
> do.

... I certainly don't want to discourage you or anyone else to work on
adding the missing features, and then we could revisit this issue.



      reply	other threads:[~2022-03-25  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-22 16:49 replacing hexl-mode with nhexl-mode? Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-03-22 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-22 19:37   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-03-22 20:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-22 20:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-23  7:07         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-03-23 12:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-23 16:47             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-25  6:59               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-03-25  7:08                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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