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Interesting, I find HxD on Windows to be the absolute peak of hex editors with no real parallels on macOS or Linux. Which is a shame because I never use Windows
by s1gsegv 2y ago
Interesting, I find HxD on Windows to be the absolute peak of hex editors with no real parallels on macOS or Linux. Which is a shame because I never use Windows.
Hex Fiend for instance is my hex editor on macOS, but why does it insist on reflowing the lines when I expand the window? I might just want to work with it maximized to avoid visual distractions, but I still only want lines to be 16 or 32 bytes long, and definitely not some weird size that will make things not line up.
- GordonS 2y ago+1 for HxD, been using it on Windows for a long while now, and it's the best he editor I've tried. Haven't tried ImHex yet, mind.
- markus_zhang 2y agoI use HxD as well. It is an interesting and fast tool.
- s1gsegv 2y agoThis is the other thing with HxD and I think it's very important for a hex editor, it handles huge amounts of data in the correct way. HxD can open entire block devices, or per-process/whole system RAM, and it all works without bogging down. I've tried a lot of lesser hex editors that get cooked the moment you try to open a 4GB file. I don't know if the field I'm in skews this, but most of the time if I'm looking at a file in a hex editor, it's relatively large and I need to find a tiny amount of information in it.
- bri3d 2y agoI use HxD in Wine because I can't find anything that works better. I use and really like Imhex for what it is but it's a different kind of tool imho - more of a plugin canvas for analysis than just a hex editor with some bells and whistles.
- omneity 2y agoJust wanted to mention that Hex Fiend is simply the fastest editor ever (on Mac). I threw gigabytes-sized files at it and it still manages to open them instantly, to the extent that I also use it as a plaintext editor in some extreme cases.