HexFiend (installs /Applications/MacPorts/Hex Fiend.app) is a true binary
editor; it shows a split view, hex on the left, characters (ASCII with anything
else replaced with periods or spaces, I guess) on the right; you can edit
either side. Unlike some binary editors, it can handle insertions
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:26:31AM +1000, Dave Horsfall
wrote:
> I can see heaps of 3rd-party stuff out there, but is there an "official"
> one?
>
> I have a file with some binary stuff in it (8-bit accents, perhaps?) and
> "vi" just spits the dummy at that point and I want to search down
I don't know about true binary editors. However it seems like you might be
trying to bridge older vs. newer character sets, like me. For this I have
found the following approaches to be better than your "vi" experience. If
your purpose is more general than character set translation, then
