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I use hexer for this, which is an editor too. http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=757 http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=757 There's also a vim mode for hex, whi
by zwischenzug 8y ago
I use hexer for this, which is an editor too.
http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=757 http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=757
There's also a vim mode for hex, which I use less often:
https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2232/how-can-i-use-vim-as-a-hex-editor https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2232/how-can-i-use-vi...
- Ksi8bb 8y agoOne of the problems with vim+xxd (and many other hex editors) is that it loads the entire file, so you can't easily use it to look at large files (archives, disk images, etc). Many moons ago I wrote a very bare bones ncurses hex viewer/editor, after not really being able to find one that fit my needs. I still use it pretty regularly: https://github.com/quo/hex.py https://github.com/quo/hex.py
- globuous 8y agoThere's hexl-mode for emacs that's pretty cool as well: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Editing-Binary-Files.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ed...