From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Edit binaries - insert
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 22:25:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16b4b789-3492-5633-d57b-9f8244699e9e@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y2jfanmy.fsf@gnu.org>
On 11/5/2020 9:23 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
>> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 08:51:04 -0500
>>
>> I haven't asked this one in a while ...
>>
>> Is there a mode to edit binaries and insert and delete bytes. I know
>> about hexl-mode, but AFAIK it only supports overwrite.
>
> "M-x find-file-literally RET FILE-NAME RET" and edit as you like.
That works, but the binary doesn't display the hex values. Just lots of
\nnn values. So it's impractical to find the byte location.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-06 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 13:51 Edit binaries - insert Ken Goldman
2020-11-05 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 3:25 ` Ken Goldman [this message]
2020-11-06 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-05 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 3:58 ` Ken Goldman
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