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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Edit binaries - insert
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 07:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83361n9h0y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16b4b789-3492-5633-d57b-9f8244699e9e@us.ibm.com> (message from Ken Goldman on Thu, 5 Nov 2020 22:25:52 -0500)

> From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 22:25:52 -0500
> 
> >> 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.

You never said you want the bytes displayed in hex.  You can set
display-raw-bytes-as-hex to have them shown in hex instead of in
octal.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06  5:43 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
2020-11-06  5:43     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-05 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06  3:58   ` Ken Goldman

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