RE: reading/writing binary data in structured form

RE: reading/writing binary data in structured form

[Drew Adams]

> does there exist a major mode which allows definition of templates so
> that editing of binary data can be done in a structured way?

hexl-mode

(A better list for this kind of question might be help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.)

Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > does there exist a major mode which allows definition of templates
> > so that editing of binary data can be done in a structured way?
>
> hexl-mode
>
> (A better list for this kind of question might be
> help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.)

You are joking, aren't you?  I want *structured* editing, this is, for
example, defining a template

  struct foo {
    int16 bar;
    int32 baz;
  }

which can be used later on as

  foo[32];

and which gets applied to a certain address, and where, for example, I
can modify a value with

  foo[12].bar=1;

or something similar.

A commercial product which looks quite promising is

  http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/

but this is for MS Windows only.


     Werner

RE: reading/writing binary data in structured form

[Drew Adams]

> > > does there exist a major mode which allows definition of templates
> > > so that editing of binary data can be done in a structured way?
> >
> > hexl-mode
>
> You are joking, aren't you?  I want *structured* editing...

No, I wasn't joking; I was trying to help. 

It wasn't clear to me from your "in a structured way" that you meant anything
like what you describe now. You did not mention that you were familiar with
hexl-mode or explain anything about what you wanted that was different.

Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form

[Werner LEMBERG]

> No, I wasn't joking; I was trying to help. 

OK, thanks.

> It wasn't clear to me from your "in a structured way" that you meant
> anything like what you describe now. You did not mention that you
> were familiar with hexl-mode or explain anything about what you
> wanted that was different.

This is probably caused by the fact that English is not my mother
tongue...


    Werner

Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form

[Dan Espen]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>> > does there exist a major mode which allows definition of templates
>> > so that editing of binary data can be done in a structured way?
>>
>> hexl-mode
>>
>> (A better list for this kind of question might be
>> help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.)
...
> A commercial product which looks quite promising is
>
>   http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/
>
> but this is for MS Windows only.

Emacs edits a few image binary file types that I'm aware of, XPM
images for example, but not with user supplied templates.