Agreed. Besides if xxd is installed, one can do something like this in vi/vim: :%!xxd make changes :%!xxd -r.
Is a shell script really necessary? On 13/11/15 11:45am, Alex Pilon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:28:36AM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote: > > What do you think? > > > > […] > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > […] > > dump="xxd -g1" > > dedump="xxd -r" > > xxd's provided by vim. As convenient as it is, should a "suckless hex > editor" really depend on that? It should be the user's choice or not to > install vim, regardless of anybody's feeling's on this list *either* way.
