Re: Display corruption with binary files

[Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>]

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On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> From: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
>> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:38:04 -0600
>>
>> emacs of old (I thought) would 'quote' the characters.  So, if the
>> file had a control-C, emacs would display ^C and a single forward-
>> character while the cursor is sitting on the ^ would move two screeen
>> spaces up to the next character.
>
> I don't think Emacs ever did that.
>
>> Is this not done?  Didn't emacs use to do it?
>
> Only if you use hexl, which is why I recommended it to the OP.

We must be talking about two different things or something.

On my Mac system, there is a version of emacs 21.2.1 in /usr/bin/ 
emacs.  I have a bzip tar file.  I type:

emacs foo.tar.bz2

from a Mac "terminal" window (not an X11 window) and it comes up just  
fine: inside the terminal.  I can move around just like I remember.

The teminal is pretending to be an xterm.  In fact, you can do the  
same thing inside an xterm, just unset DISPLAY -- otherwise emacs  
will become an X11 client.

I tried doing the same thing to the GUI style emacs 22.0.50 version  
but if I do it from the terminal, it complains that it can't find  
things: encoded-kb... I probably need to set my load-path on the  
command line somehow.

Anyhow... I know it worked as of emacs 21.  I can't test it on emacs  
22 today.

Perry Smith ( pedz@easesoftware.com )
Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com )

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