From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: handa@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Typing raw bytes
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:39:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wqv6o2pl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837gn7p52w.fsf@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:50:31 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > From: Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:22:17 +0900
> >
> > In article <83hambpqds.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > > Suppose I want to create a file whose contents is a series of certain
> > > bytes. How would I go about that?
> >
> > > I tried "M-x hexl-mode RET" in a new buffer, but it evidently doesn't
> > > let you insert bytes, only edit existing bytes.
> >
> > > Next I tried "C-x RET f raw-text RET" in a new buffer followed by
> > > "C-q NNN" etc., but the data written thereafter to disk is more bytes
> > > than I typed, because, I guess, "C-q NNN" inserts windows-1255
> > > characters (this is on Windows, where keyboard-coding-system is
> > > windows-1255-unix), and what winds up in the file is their UTF-8
> > > encoding.
> >
> > Please use C-q in a unibyte buffer.
>
> But "C-x RET f raw-text RET" does just that.
Ignore me: raw-text doesn't make the buffer unibyte.
find-file-literally is the way. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-21 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-20 20:10 Typing raw bytes Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-20 20:50 ` Ivan Andrus
2013-01-20 20:55 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-01-20 21:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-20 21:43 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-01-20 20:59 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2013-01-20 21:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-21 14:47 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2013-01-21 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-21 19:38 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2013-01-21 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-20 20:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-20 21:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-20 23:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-20 23:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-01-21 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-21 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-01-21 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-21 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-21 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-21 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-22 0:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-21 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
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