Re: Display corruption with binary files

[August Karlstrom]

August Karlstrom skrev:
> Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> > > From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
> > > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:05:45 GMT
> > >
> > > When I open any binary file with Emacs in console mode (emacs -nw) 
> > > the display gets corrupted (the menu and parts of the mode line 
> > > disappears). In GUI mode it works as expected. I use GNU Emacs 
> > > version 21.4.1 and gnome-terminal 2.16.1 under Ubuntu 6.10.
> > >
> > > Any clues?
> >
> > Try "M-x hexl-find-file RET", it is meant for editing binary files.
>
> Works like a charm.

One thing I've noticed with `hexl-find-file' though is that read-only 
permission of a file is not respected (I'm able to edit a read-only 
binary file). This is not the case if I open the file in Emacs with GUI 
(and run `hexl-mode'). Is this a bug?


August