Re: Typing raw bytes

[Stefan Monnier]

> I tried "M-x hexl-mode RET" in a new buffer, but it evidently doesn't
> let you insert bytes, only edit existing bytes.

nhexl-mode should let you do that.

> Next I tried "C-x RET f raw-text RET" in a new buffer followed by
> "C-q NNN" etc., but the data written thereafter to disk is more bytes
> than I typed, because, I guess, "C-q NNN" inserts windows-1255
> characters (this is on Windows, where keyboard-coding-system is
> windows-1255-unix), and what winds up in the file is their UTF-8
> encoding.

Subsequent messages explain it seems to be due to the C-q NNN char being
passed through keyboard-coding-system: that seems to be a bug.
Another problem might be that C-x RET f raw-text RET should try to put
the buffer in unibyte mode.


        Stefan