From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:59:21 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296259031 25497 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 23:57:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:57:11 +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 00:57:06 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 1PiyBa-0004zm-8U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:57:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PixwK-00047x-91 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:41:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="KHcuAMW8RJ/5FQppbCjjnQ"; logging-data="12329"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jK23n4auuSlTSqRPfoBCI" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jgT14caP2XAuWOfvJ8CIBTVKDF4= sha1:KRUS6t4fUqKwMnIHUeFNGhiSZ8M= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184658 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:78818 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? 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 :-( Stefan