a good hex editor

[cl at isbd.net]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:45:00PM +0200, Luqman wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I am in need of a good, i.e. to some extent usable hex editor. I have
> had a try on vim (with hex mode), ghex2 and  hexcurse but none of them
> seem to do what I lke. 
> 
> I like to delete some parts of a binary file using such a hex editor.
> Unbelieveable but true, everyone of the above mentioned editors had 
> one or the other issue. 
> 
> - vim: allows editing and viewing the file but deleting parts of hex
>   values does not show modifications in corresponding ascii values that
>   are displayed right to hex values. Instead these ascii values just
>   more leftwards. In a nutshell, modified file is not longer useable.
> 
> - ghex2: Looks great and have a nice search and replace interface.
>   A small bug, though, make editing error prone. During search and
>   editing, the cursor is not placed on the right byte and thus you have
>   to be careful while deleting something.
> 
> - hexcurse: I could not find out how to delete something. No
>   documentation available.
> 
>   There must an intuitively usable hexeditor available, I have not tried
>   yet. 
> 
>   You feedback is much appreciated. I am not afraid of command line but
>   the editor should at least do what the name suggest "able to edit" hex
>   file.
> 
Another vi lookalike called vile may well be able to do what you want.

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Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)