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fpjohnston / TECO-64

Enhanced and portable version of TECO text editor in C.
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Binary files #10

Closed fpjohnston closed 11 months ago

fpjohnston commented 2 years ago

TECO is able to edit binary files, but doing so in display mode may not work as expected, due to the fact that the code currently expects the edit buffer to include some line delimiters. This may be addressed eventually, but for now please be aware of this limitation.

fpjohnston commented 11 months ago

In the process of resolving Issue #14, involving the use of UTF-8 characters in files, it became clear that that should also be part of any effort to improve the editing of binary files in display mode. However, given TECO's history of treating bytes and characters as equivalent, this would be a much larger effort than I think is justified at this time. I can allow the possibility of reopening this issue at some point later on, but for now I think it's best just to close it out.