When talking about accidental damage, switching off autodetection is much more dangerous, being a permanent setting it might affect any of the binary files opened in the future!
I believe a vast majority of PSPad users are aware of the risks involved, but anyhow, just enabling "View / Hex Edit Mode" in all cases would suffice with a simple warning message when switching from hex to text mode. Or maybe just another "direct edit" setting to enable this behavior? And I did not use the word "see". :) Actually, it is more than just "see", sometimes I may just need exactly that - to switch binary to text mode so I could easily clean up some superfluous bytes. -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,60359,76904> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com
