Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!tully.Berkeley.EDU!mcgrath From: mcgrath@tully.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: gemacs binary editing mode? Message-ID: Date: 28 May 89 22:50:31 GMT References: : <9808@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Hackers Anonymous International, Ltd., Inc. (Applications welcome) Lines: 14 In-reply-to: treed@dasys1.UUCP's message of 27 May 89 02:42:06 GMT In article <9808@dasys1.UUCP> treed@dasys1.UUCP (Timothy Reed) writes: Does GNU emacs have a mode that allows patching and editing of binary files or executables? I've heard this but haven't found any mention in the man. You can edit binary files directly if you like. To do sane patching, however, I'd suggest the hexl-mode recently posted to gnu.emacs{.bug?} by Keith Gabryelski (ag@wheaties.ai.mit.edu). -- Roland McGrath Free Software Foundation, Inc. roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland Copyright 1989 Roland McGrath, under the GNU General Public License, version 1.