[Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 b1235f9: Improve documentation of Hexl mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

branch: emacs-26
commit b1235f9abd0f255ff65e13b18ef3ee4e19278484
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

    Improve documentation of Hexl mode
    
    * doc/emacs/misc.texi (Editing Binary Files): Clarify
    "insertion".  Improve wording.  Add a few Hexl commands.
    (Bug#35580)
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 doc/emacs/misc.texi | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/emacs/misc.texi b/doc/emacs/misc.texi
index fc6b4cf..75cca72 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi
@@ -2423,10 +2423,13 @@ automatically back to binary.
 into hex.  This is useful if you visit a file normally and then discover
 it is a binary file.
 
-  Ordinary text characters overwrite in Hexl mode.  This is to reduce
+  Inserting text always overwrites in Hexl mode.  This is to reduce
 the risk of accidentally spoiling the alignment of data in the file.
-There are special commands for insertion.  Here is a list of the
-commands of Hexl mode:
+Ordinary text characters insert themselves (i.e., overwrite with
+themselves).  There are commands for insertion of special characters
+by their code.  Most cursor motion keys, as well as @kbd{C-x C-s}, are
+bound in Hexl mode to commands that produce the same effect.  Here is
+a list of other important commands special to Hexl mode:
 
 @c I don't think individual index entries for these commands are useful--RMS.
 @table @kbd
@@ -2439,6 +2442,12 @@ Insert a byte with a code typed in octal.
 @item C-M-x
 Insert a byte with a code typed in hex.
 
address@hidden C-M-a
+Move to the beginning of a 512-byte page.
+
address@hidden C-M-e
+Move to the end of a 512-byte page.
+
 @item C-x [
 Move to the beginning of a 1k-byte page.