Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form

[Werner LEMBERG]

[GNU Emacs 23.0.50.2 of 2008-01-31]

> > does there exist a major mode which allows definition of templates
> > so that editing of binary data can be done in a structured way?
> 
> Maybe bindat.el (bundled with Emacs) can be a good beginning of a
> solution.

Aah, yes, this looks very promising!  Actually, I've never seen any
mentioning of this package in emacs-devel (which is probably a good
thing since it means that it works flawlessly) ...

BTW, it's quite hard to find that package IMHO within Emacs; the only
sensible way which comes to my mind is using `C-h p', going to section
`data'.  However, the files mentioned in this section are unsorted
(which I consider a bad thing -- is this a bug?), and there are many
items which are rather unneeded by Joe User (like most of the
url-xxx.el files).

Is there a better way?  Neither `apropos' nor the manual index gives a
sensible result which means that I've basically exhausted the
suggested searching possibilities as given in the `Help' section of
the Emacs info manual.


    Werner