From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:42:39 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <z6V9h.24267$E02.9863@newsb.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eXU9h.24264$E02.9924@newsb.telia.net>
August Karlstrom skrev:
> Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>>> From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
>>> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:05:45 GMT
>>>
>>> When I open any binary file with Emacs in console mode (emacs -nw)
>>> the display gets corrupted (the menu and parts of the mode line
>>> disappears). In GUI mode it works as expected. I use GNU Emacs
>>> version 21.4.1 and gnome-terminal 2.16.1 under Ubuntu 6.10.
>>>
>>> Any clues?
>>
>> Try "M-x hexl-find-file RET", it is meant for editing binary files.
>
> Works like a charm.
One thing I've noticed with `hexl-find-file' though is that read-only
permission of a file is not respected (I'm able to edit a read-only
binary file). This is not the case if I open the file in Emacs with GUI
(and run `hexl-mode'). Is this a bug?
August
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-25 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-23 22:05 Display corruption with binary files August Karlstrom
2006-11-24 11:49 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-25 10:30 ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-25 16:38 ` Perry Smith
2006-11-25 21:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-26 0:34 ` Perry Smith
2006-11-26 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-26 4:55 ` Perry Smith
2006-11-26 9:19 ` Arjen Wiersma
2006-11-26 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1101.1164472694.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-26 13:30 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-11-25 12:42 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1089.1164458537.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-25 13:16 ` August Karlstrom
[not found] ` <mailman.1086.1164452697.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-27 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-24 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1054.1164416983.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-25 10:30 ` August Karlstrom
2006-11-25 10:42 ` August Karlstrom [this message]
2006-11-25 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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