config hex mode to show data byte by byte

Question

By default, the hexl mode will show binary data two bytes by two bytes as below:

00000000: 0000 0020 6674 7970 6973 6f6d 0000 0200  ... ftypisom....

Is it possible to change the style to show data byte by byte? just like below:

00000000: 00 00 00 20 66 74 79 70 69 73 6f 6d 00 00 02 00  ... ftypisom....

Or any other better hex edit package available for emacs?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '19 at 11:36

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Change the user option hexl-bits from 16 (2 bytes) to 8 (1 byte):

(setq hexl-bits 8)

Or any other better hex edit package available for emacs?

answered May 19 '19 at 11:36

xuchunyang

Thanks, it works fine. I try nhexl also but hexl-bits does't work on nhexl mode. – lucky1928 May 19 '19 at 17:49
@lucky1928 The Commentary of nhexl-mode.el mentions `;;;; Wishlist: ... ;; - An equivalent to hexl-mode's 'hexl-bits'.` – xuchunyang May 19 '19 at 18:04

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