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Article #935Nulls and Binary editors (was: Re: EDITORS -> EMACS)
From: "John E. Davis"
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 22:21
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 22:21
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In article <1991Apr18.204216.6994@ibmpcug.co.uk> gmurray@ibmpcug.co.uk (G Murray) writes: } I can't comment on Epsilon, but the main problem that I have noted with }both Brief and EMACS is that they can't handle Nulls. Brief seems to manage }every other possible byte value in a file except for 0x00. Which emacs are you referring to? GNU emacs handles nulls. From what I just read about freemacs, the author claims that it can edit its own binary so I assume it can handle nulls as well. Now for a few thoughts about binary editors: It seems to me that it would be very easy to write a binary editor-- easier than writing an ordinary text editor. I believe that text editors must worry about the appearance of the displayed text whereas this should not be a concern for a binary editor-- just format everything in columns to make it readable. Am I too naive here? It seems that editors which allow binary files to be edited (eg GNU emacs) do not take this approach. I would much rather edit a file which formats the binary characters in nice easy to read columns. -- John bitnet: davis@ohstpy internet: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
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