Re: Edit binaries - insert

[Ken Goldman]

On 11/5/2020 9:23 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
> > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 08:51:04 -0500
> >
> > I haven't asked this one in a while ...
> >
> > Is there a mode to edit binaries and insert and delete bytes.  I know
> > about hexl-mode, but AFAIK it only supports overwrite.
>
> "M-x find-file-literally RET FILE-NAME RET" and edit as you like.

That works, but the binary doesn't display the hex values.  Just lots of
\nnn values.  So it's impractical to find the byte location.