From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleksandr Gavenko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:46:33 +0200 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296312452 25891 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2011 14:47:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:47:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 29 15:47:26 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 1PjC5E-00070y-AL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:47:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjC5B-0003Zx-1F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:47:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38303 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjC4r-0003KU-2o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:47:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjC4p-0003m7-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:47:00 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjC4p-0003m0-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjC4i-0006pa-Ki for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:46:52 +0100 Original-Received: from 3-121-202-46.pool.ukrtel.net ([46.202.121.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:46:52 +0100 Original-Received: from gavenkoa by 3-121-202-46.pool.ukrtel.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:46:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3-121-202-46.pool.ukrtel.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: 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:78828 Archived-At: On 2011-01-29 0:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> 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? > > Sadly, there isn't. I have a new mode I call "nhexl-mode" which does > "the same" as hexl-mode but in a completely different way (the > conversion is done in a font-lockish way, so the buffer's content is > not affected, only the display) so you can use it with buffer insertion > and pretty much anything else. Sadly, it bumps into some severe > performance limitations in the current redisplay code, so it's largely > unusable other than on very small buffers :-( > It is possible read only portion of file by Emacs and don't load all file content into buffer? Many hex viewer in read-only mode allow open large files without performance penalty. Emacs don't. -- Best regards!