Bug 253935

Summary:	can no longer hex edit certain files.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave Jones <davej>
Component:	mc	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	7	CC:	pfrields, pknirsch
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Description Dave Jones 2007-08-23 00:24:13 UTC

try this..

gcc helloworld.c

mc

move over the a.out

f3 (View)
f4 (switch to hex)
f2 (edit)

nothing happens. Because f2 is an empty menu option. (It doesn't even have an
"edit" label).  Doing the same procedure on another file allows hex editing.

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2008-04-05 14:37:41 UTC

Not a bug. Your F-Key-sequence ought to be:

F3 (View)
F8 (Raw)    <-- (!)
F4 (Hex)
F2 (Edit)

Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2008-04-05 17:00:23 UTC

Indeed. mc allows switching between Parse/Raw mode to allow editing.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-04-05 18:10:25 UTC

weird.  f3-f4-f2 works fine for other files, just not executables.

Comment 4 Michael Schwendt 2008-04-05 23:08:39 UTC

Enter MC menu "Command > Edit extension file", then look for

  type/^ELF

You can disable the default View= action there if it annoys you.
There are similar actions defined for many other file types.