From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 06:25:52 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
      
   > On 05.03.2024 04:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Note I didn’t say “text editor”. Emacs can be used to edit binary   
   >> files, too. It doesn’t assume that a file is made up of “lines”.   
   >   
   > Isn't that a not uncommon editor feature? (I've seen it in several   
   > places.) - In Vim there is (to my knowledge) no built-in support;   
   > you use existing tools like xxd from within Vim. Not sure there's   
   > an advantage to have an own implementation built in.   
      
   Nothing about an “own implementation”, based on any kind of dump   
   conversion requirement. It’s just of the regular file-editing facility,   
   not a special mode or anything.   
      
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