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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
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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