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Re: How to view raw text in Emacs?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How to view raw text in Emacs?
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:18:52 +0300

> From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid>
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 22:57:44 -0400
> 
> But, yes, if you *really* want to know what's in the buffer, then
> hexl-mode will give you that information.

Not in the _buffer_, in the _file_.  The internal representation of
text in the buffer is never revealed to Lisp and to users, and needs
some non-trivial tricks to show.  (Not that I think users will want to
see that anyway.)



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