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Comment by 🐦 Arkaeriit

Re: "Editing Near-ASCII Binary Files"

In: s/vim

Thanks for this great tip!

🐦 Arkaeriit

Jul 09 · 6 months ago

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Editing Near-ASCII Binary Files — I am experimenting with a near-ASCII file format containing text messages and binary markers (high bit set). Vim is surprisingly useful: it will display files in a reasonable-for-debugging way by displaying hex values for high characters. It preserves these during editing, and will even allow you to enter non-ascii characters: In Insert mode, [preformatted] will insert 0xAB. o will similarly take 3 octal digits. Just numbers for decimal digits.

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