Neither vi, vim or xxd are suckless. Anyone has tried ired/vired?
> On 14 Nov 2015, at 06:15, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> writes: >> I agree that it is a "poor man's" hex editor. I am having fun with it, even >> if >> it is a toy. I don't have the desire to write a sophisticated hex editor >> (besides they already exist). >> >> I like that the small shell script can turn any editor into a hex editor. >> BTW, >> if od is replaced with hexdump -C or xxd or GNU od -tx1z, then the ascii will >> be in the dump too. > > It being in the dump isn't really "enough" - in a real hex editor, you > can make changes on the ASCII side and expect them to be reflected in > the hex side (and ultimately the binary file), whereas using xxd [etc] > means the ASCII side is static and is ignored when read back in. > > This does have its place, though... It's basically an editor-portable > version of the recipe that vim provides for using xxd to "edit" binary > files. Which is itself a compelling enough use case for xxd to be > included with vim in the first place (as far as I know xxd has no other > vim-related purpose). But it's not a hex editor. > >
