On Saturday 17 December 2005 3:16 am, scsijon wrote:

Does anyone know of a decent simple linux Hex/ascii/text editor, like the one that use to be in Xtree in the old days (you used tab to move between the two formats).

I've had a look at freshmeat's offers and they all seem to be all much more programmers editors and that is far more than the need to just add some missed initials and dates at three positions (varying locations unfortunately) over 83 files.

Have you looked at midnight commander? The editor built-in is pretty simple and straight forward. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.9-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)

scsijon, Hey, I remember that editor in xtree... it saved my kiester more than once. Have you tried emacs? It's saved me so many times I can't possibly recall them all. I can't say for sure that it will allow you to display and edit files in hex format, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't do it. Emacs simply does everything. (Well, I found out recently that you can't use it out of the box to handle email on multiple IMAPS accounts. The fact that this was a surprise should say something.) If you've never used emacs, don't worry. It obeys the arrow keys and the Pg-Up/Dn so you could use those. I'd recommend posing your question to . Of course, like any mailing list, you'd have to subscribe first. hth, ken On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:16:58 +1100 scsijon wrote:

Does anyone know of a decent simple linux Hex/ascii/text editor, like the one that use to be in Xtree in the old days (you used tab to move between the two formats).

I've had a look at freshmeat's offers and they all seem to be all much more programmers editors and that is far more than the need to just add some missed initials and dates at three positions (varying locations unfortunately) over 83 files.

thanks in advance scsijon ps, can someone give me the websubscription address for opensuse please, been meaning to subscribe for a while now.

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