From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Edit binaries - insert Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 22:25:52 -0500 Message-ID: <16b4b789-3492-5633-d57b-9f8244699e9e@us.ibm.com> References: <83y2jfanmy.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29692"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.3 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 04:26:33 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1kasOX-0007ei-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:26:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43988 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kasOW-0003SH-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:26:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kasO3-0003S7-Bn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:51680 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kasO2-0006gs-1T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kasNv-0006xc-Uj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:25:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ In-Reply-To: <83y2jfanmy.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/05 22:25:56 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125046 Archived-At: On 11/5/2020 9:23 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ken Goldman >> 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.