On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 07:54:07PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > I'm sorry to be blunt, but this is not a suckless hex editor, but a poor mans > hex editor that's barely useful for any real work in my opinion. I mean it > may > work fine for changing a single byte here or there and look at dumps, but > it's > not much more useful then dd or hd for that sake imho. > I think to the very minimum, a proper hex editor should have the capability > to > show both hex and ascii in parallel, work well with large files, provide > useful searches, and provide support for templates. Everything else is just a > toy.
I appreciate honest feedback. I am well aware that this list is not known for being warm and fuzzy, so don't worry about it. I am also well aware that this list has some very talented programmers on it. I agree that it is a "poor man's" hex editor. I am having fun with it, even if it is a toy. I don't have the desire to write a sophisticated hex editor (besides they already exist). I like that the small shell script can turn any editor into a hex editor. BTW, if od is replaced with hexdump -C or xxd or GNU od -tx1z, then the ascii will be in the dump too.
