From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: replacing hexl-mode with nhexl-mode? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:08:38 +0300 Message-ID: <8335j6cxvt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tubpeuly.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfr9eov4.fsf@gnu.org> <83r16ten4w.fsf@gnu.org> <83lex0et0w.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37211"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 08:13:54 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nXe8v-0009Z1-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 08:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXe8u-0005Zt-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXe41-0000f8-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=33752 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXe40-0000ep-Qk; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:08:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=HwDdkhvaWwCeZBHw9Zb0N9TAOBemFJUCNhGiy4pZQ5M=; b=gqGmaZcTEtK1 bh0lM5RMfUIZOMFflUQLs+IMxQ82Z/8Dfxqp4wm/vBja5p1T/oIbSGNI+H6IFvQOyjGuIeyeyDp9X wjRcZBgEi4nIwVxGkBoTXtbAtaaHurSyaGvhe4wVjAIjhcLDVqoJLK/2bYefajFfneZU6tFIZ/Wal BGKzkLrxRigP03ZKuS+3Arc47EBEI+4X/wO4xplA2mqD2Rt0V9ZJf7dzi2mbRLIUYXos7ufSKRXu4 R4pvHM17x5lH5NGWPxLJNm1hLfbQ7vRJZNjDrqcW5ogcKtdn0SaqYv+Ussr6M+RFHZAOnHGKKdbIc nW7ZnK9Hj0mog7FeOySGog==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1193 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXe3v-0003Zr-G1; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:08:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:287437 Archived-At: > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > 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.