From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to view raw text in Emacs?
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 22:57:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fio618F8bmvU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h8opjqro.fsf@bsb.me.uk
On Thursday, 5 Apr 2018 5:18 PM -0400, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> N. Jackson (2018-04-05 14:56 -0400) wrote:
>>
>>> Sometimes when I'm using Emacs I want to see "what's really there"
>>> rather than the view of the text that Emacs is showing me. So far, I
>>> have not figured out how to do this. Usually after casting about in
>>> Emacs for a solution, the frustration builds sufficiently that I switch
>>> to Kate of Gedit to see what I want to see. I would like to learn how to
>>> do this in Emacs.
>>>
>>> For example, I open etc/enriched.txt. I realise that there is more there
>>> than I'm seeing and am curious to see what is actually in the file. I
>>> try `M-x fundamental-mode RET' which changes nothing. (I don't know why
>>> I think it should, but that always seems to be what I try first.) Then I
>>> see in the mode line that I'm in "Enriched" mode, so I try `M-x
>>> enriched-mode RET' to turn it off, which does seem to turn it off (it's
>>> nice that it's intuitive that way), but the view in the buffer doesn't
>>> change. I try `M-x set-buffer-coding-system RET raw-text RET', but that
>>> doesn't help either. I try `M-x set-buffer-coding-system RET
>>> no-conversion RET', but again there is no apparent change.
>>>
>>> Clearly I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure what it is. Any
>>> pointers would be welcome.
>>
>> Perhaps "M-x find-file-literally" is what you are looking for.
>
> A word of caution from this function's description
>
> If Emacs already has a buffer which is visiting the file, you
> get the existing buffer, regardless of whether it was created
> literally or not.
>
> And another option... Sometimes I find hexl-mode the right thing,
> though it involves more learning because it's such a different kind of
> view of the buffer.
But, yes, if you *really* want to know what's in the buffer, then
hexl-mode will give you that information.
--
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-06 2:57 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 [this message]
2018-04-06 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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