Hello, I find it tedious when looking at unprintables in Emacs just to have to decode them from their octal to hexadecimal form for further lookup. I've therefore written a patch that allows Emacs to display such unprintables in hexadecimal format instead. I'm not sure about the naming though and whether a hardcoded secondary format string is the way to go. Once that's resolved, I'll add documentation to the patch. Vasilij Schneidermann