flash@lehi3b15.UUCP (Stephen Corbesero) (06/16/88)
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.) -- Stephen Corbesero flash@lehi3b15.UUCP VLSI Design Automation Lab usgcorb@vax1.cc.Lehigh.EDU Computer Science And Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University
X230GV@TAMVM1.BITNET (Glenn Vanderburg) (06/21/88)
>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
cdr@symbol.UUCP (Constantine Rasmussen - Sun ECD) (06/21/88)
> I'm sure that hex-mode editing of a single file will require at least two > buffers, and maybe three. I don't under stand why it would require more than one. I wrote one in pascal for a company I worked for and it was a single buffer arrangement that looked like "od -x" on eon side of the screen and ascii strings on the other. Let me know about progress or lack there of. Thanks, Constantine Rasmussen Sun Microsystems, East Coast Division (617) 671-0404 2 Federal Street; Billerica, Ma. 01824 ARPA: cdr@sun.com USENET: {cbosgd,decvax,hplabs,seismo}!sun!cdr