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[pinard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (François Pinard)]

[Andrei Mircea]

> So, I need a binary editor with excellent find-and-replace
> capabilities.  Any suggestion is welcome.

Emacs, of course!  If Mule gets in the way, use `M-x find-file-literally'
instead of `M-x find-file' or `C-x C-f'.  I used this a few times to patch
executable files.  You have to be careful to not displace the rest of the
bytes, but `M-x overwrite-mode' then helps you at this.

Also, if you need to actually play within an hexadecimal dump of your file,
there is an `hexl' mode, which I did not use recently however.


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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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