Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On 15.09.2024 11:06, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:25:53 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> boringly babbled:

[...]

 
Any sane person uses a dedicated hex editor to edit binary files, not vim
or emacs.

I suppose you may be right. (Or maybe not?)

Frankly, I rarely edited binary files [with any editor]; for me
that's at best a corner case, and at worst a wrong approach (in
some cases I've seen).

But, to be honest, in the few cases where I did binary editings
I was glad that I could just use the editor I'm used to. And in
such cases I resorted to  :!xxd ...  sort of data handling from
within the editor I use (Vi/Vim).

Janis