I haven’t seen any mention of this so I thought I’d bring it up. Any plans on adding hex editing functionality?
Hex Editor?
jps
#2
I don’t have any plans to, no. While I realise that text editors frequently do have a hex editor built into them, my preference is to focus on text editing, and leave editing binary data to dedicated tools.
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qwertfisch
#3
Since a binary (containing 0 bytes) will be displayed in some kind of rudimentary hex mode, I have the question why such a file still needs to be loaded fullsize into RAM? Either you have a text file behaviour which includes displaying, or you have a hex file behaviour which should include hex editing (or at least hex displaying in read-only mode) and instant displaying, so that I may open some 100MB files without waiting minutes just for display.
I don’t get the „feature“ of the rudimentary hex mode. It’s senseless in most cases, because binarys are mostly bigger files.
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