From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:22:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <482fb2ba-e50f-4102-bfe7-3a78613d970f@m27g2000prj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296249807 15323 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 21:23:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:23:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 22:23:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pivmr-0008Q4-4p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:23:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pivmq-0006S9-C1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49144 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PivmE-0006R5-GG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PivmD-0007ml-Dl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:22:42 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49405) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PivmD-0007mW-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PivmA-0007yW-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:22:38 +0100 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:22:38 +0100 Original-Received: from kgold by yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:22:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Red Hat/3.1.7-3.el6_0 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <482fb2ba-e50f-4102-bfe7-3a78613d970f@m27g2000prj.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78811 Archived-At: I use hexl-mode all the time. I've often needed an insert, as opposed to overwrite. Do you know if there's a way to insert? On 01/28/2011 04:54 AM, Simón Ortiz wrote: > I don't know if it is under_publicized, but I like a lot M-x hexl-mode > > It's mode for editing binary files! Extremely useful when you need to > save/load data to/from binaries.