On Mi, 09 Aug 2023, 'Dragan Simic' via vim_dev wrote:
>
> Save and restore the view position before and after saving the buffer,
> respectively, to keep the current view of the xxd(1)'s hex dump
> unchanged after doing ":w", which previously caused the window to
> scroll back to the very beginning of the buffer. I believe it's
> needless to say how annoying and counterproductive that was.
>
> Get rid of the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" message, which
> was previously displayed after opening larger binary files. The use
> of "silent" and "redraw" commands is tailored specifically to avoid
> screen flickering, e.g. when doing ":w", which is caused by the buffer
> being filtered by an external command.
>
> Increase the number of octets per line, produced by xxd(1), from the
> default value of 16 to 32. This puts bigger chunks of the hex dump
> on the screen and makes the whole thing much more usable.
>
> While there, reformat the code to make it more readable, and use the
> long form of the commands and variables to make the code slightly more
> consistent and more understandable to newcomers.
[...]
Thanks, applied both.
BTW: like your commit message, it makes understanding why this change
has been done so much better.
Best,
Christian
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