Bug 253935 - can no longer hex edit certain files.
Summary: can no longer hex edit certain files.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mc
Version: 7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-23 00:24 UTC by Dave Jones
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-04-05 17:00:23 UTC
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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.



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