Any thoughts on Wx hex Editor?
 

Supposedly it does almost anything and is open source. Does anyone have any experience with it?

Thanks in advance!

I've always seen hex editors as a kind of solution-looking-for-a-problem tool. On the surface, it seems like a great tool for doing.... uh, well, hard to give a good example. Most things that are not text-editor friendly exist as a product of some kind of translator, or are simply the output of a program. Modifying such files usually makes the most sense by using a tool built specifically for the job. Often, modifying even a small number of bytes in a file has a ripple effect on the whole file, or large parts of it. These are difficult to keep track of at the basic binary/hex byte level, which is why an application-specific tool is generally preferred.
What application do you see as appropriate for the tool you mentioned?

--- rod.

This endevor has multiple purposes.
 

I want to start installing from source code for one and I need to build sort of a "lab" to understand Linux/computing better. The hex editor would be an instrument to do this with and I would install it from source to for-fill two needs at once.

Part of the functionality of a "do it all" editor is that you don't have to guess when gedit won't open it ,what type of file it is judging by what is says it is not.

:hattip: Is this hattip emotioncon still strobing?

Himm. It's little late to answer but being late is better than never. :)

I am experiencing it for a years. It helps me on many projects. That's why it's programmed. Without it, you don't have any free tool like Meteorite MKV fixer. And I am actually happy while I am using it. Indeed it's the best HexEditor for Linux, for me, not just because of that I have program it (as an it's author).

I just write for learn your experiences with wxHexEditor.
Thanks.

So you wrote the code for Wx?
 

Thanks for the response! I never actually compiled it but I might do it in the near future. I wanted an editor and yours had features that seemed very useful that the others did not have, meld ,etcetera.