From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to view raw text in Emacs?
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:18:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9iw246b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fio618F8bmvU1@mid.individual.net> (message from Will Parsons on Thu, 5 Apr 2018 22:57:44 -0400)
> From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 22:57:44 -0400
>
> But, yes, if you *really* want to know what's in the buffer, then
> hexl-mode will give you that information.
Not in the _buffer_, in the _file_. The internal representation of
text in the buffer is never revealed to Lisp and to users, and needs
some non-trivial tricks to show. (Not that I think users will want to
see that anyway.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-06 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-05 18:56 How to view raw text in Emacs? N. Jackson
2018-04-05 19:07 ` Alex Kost
[not found] ` <mailman.11755.1522955247.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-05 21:18 ` Ben Bacarisse
2018-04-06 2:57 ` Will Parsons
2018-04-06 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-06 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.11771.1522999021.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-06 10:29 ` Ben Bacarisse
2018-04-06 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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