a good hex editor

[Derek Broughton]

James Tappin wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:45:00 +0200
> Luqman <luqman_ngs at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> L> hello,
> L>
> L> I am in need of a good, i.e. to some extent usable hex editor. I have
> L> had a try on vim (with hex mode), ghex2 and  hexcurse but none of
> L> them seem to do what I lke.
> L>
> L> I like to delete some parts of a binary file using such a hex editor.
> L> Unbelieveable but true, everyone of the above mentioned editors had
> L> one or the other issue.
> 
> L>   There must an intuitively usable hexeditor available, I have not
> L>   tried yet.
> L>
> L>   You feedback is much appreciated. I am not afraid of command line
> L>   but the editor should at least do what the name suggest "able to
> L>   edit" hex file.
> 
> I generally use khexedit (mainly for such nasties as debugging VMS file
> record structures), I think there is a hex mode in emacs as well.
> 
Interesting that this just came up as I practically never use a hex editor,
but have been using khexedit the last couple of days.  The only issue I've
found with it is that I can't paste into the "find" box (????).
-- 
derek