On Feb 9, 11:29 am, Peter de Ridder <pe...@xfce.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Bee <beeyaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Editing in vim is difficult, so I chose to edit in vim style: > > >http://bvi.sourceforge.net/ > > > I have compiled this for linux and mac, works well. > > > -Bill > > I didn't know that one yet. That is one of the few hex editor which > has support for inserting tekst in an easy way. I see there is a > cygwin verion but no windows version. > > So to clarify my motivations, a bit further, for patching vim: > I would like to be able to use it on windows too. So a benefit of vim > is the support for large files with inserting and a wide range of > platform support. > Editing in vim isn't as dedicated to hex editing as bvi and it is not > my intention to make it that way. But scripts could easy the way of > hex editing. > Also at times, I like to see a file, I'm editing, in hex, so it would > be easy to use the same editor for that. > > If you do a lot of hex editing/manipulations bvi seems like a nice > editor. And I don't think my patches will replace it. > > regards, > Peter
I would also like to have hex editing in vim and on all platforms that I work. But at this point vim is not so good for hex editing. If/until vim is a good hex editor... on Linux and Mac I use bvi, on Windows I use HxD. <http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/> -Bill -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
