Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!gateway!TAMVM1.BITNET!X230GV From: X230GV@TAMVM1.BITNET (Glenn Vanderburg) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Hex/Binary Editor Mode Message-ID: <25984@bbn.COM> Date: 20 Jun 88 17:24:28 GMT References: Sender: news@bbn.COM Organization: BBN news/mail gateway Lines: 18 >Does anyone have a Binary Editor mode for GnuEmacs? I am looking for >something like the PC Norton Utilities, which brings up the hex code >on the left, and the displayable ASCII characters on the right, and >lets you jump between the two (via the TAB key.) I don't have one, but I thought about it a while back. It would be a spectacular addition to Emacs. Amdahl supplies a great hex editor (called hed) with its version of UNIX for IBM mainframes; the screen looks almost just like the output from xd, and you can edit either the hex portion or the ASCII portion. If nobody has a mode like this, does anyone have any pointers for implementing it? I'm not an Emacs-lisp expert, but if someone can give me some advice on implementation strategies I might be willing to give it a try. In particular, I'm sure that hex-mode editing of a single file will require at least two buffers, and maybe three. Does anyone have any opinions? ---Glenn