Editing Near-ASCII Binary Files

I am experimenting with a near-ASCII file format containing text messages and binary markers (high bit set). Vim is surprisingly useful: it will display files in a reasonable-for-debugging way by displaying hex values for high characters. It preserves these during editing, and will even allow you to enter non-ascii characters:

In Insert mode,

CTRL-V x AB

will insert 0xAB. o will similarly take 3 octal digits. Just numbers for decimal digits.

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🐦 Arkaeriit · 2023-07-09 at 10:45:

Thanks for this great tip!