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[maxandron]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I usually use a different app to take notes. But it could be super useful to have notes inside without jumping.

Describe the solution you'd like Just a super simple text box. No formatting, just text. It could be useful to have it as an "extra" window (like graph).

This is how a similar solution looks in the IDE

[XVilka]

Please note these things:

• radare2 supports attaching text files into the particular places of the disassembly/file. See CC, command in the command mode and , key in the visual mode. See last paragraphs about this command in the Disassembly Metadata chapter of Radare2 book.

• Request to add Markdown veiwer - #11562 support in radare2.

• Jupyter/IPython support in Cutter:

  • Jupyter Widgets
  • Switch to JupyterLab
  • QtConsole + Jupyter
  • Jupyter vertical split in radare2

Note, that for some reason Cutter developers decided to disable building Jupyter by default, side-by-side with rest of Cutter widgets. While it certainly reduces build times and resulting sizes, it cripple the user experience. I believe they should offer at least both builds - with and without.

See for example how it is done in Visual Studio Code:

[XVilka]

In my cases I usually would like to attach:

• Text notes
• URLs
• External text files (For more elaborate notes or output of other tools)
• External files (usually PDFs with datasheets for example, sometimes DOC files or ZIP)

By my logic (and experience) every non-trivial reverse engineering task/target is akin to the criminal case, when you add notes, put important URLs to useful sites/articles, attach PDFs or DOC[X] of datasheets, etc.

[xarkes]

Note, that for some reason Cutter developers decided to disable building Jupyter by default, side-by-side with rest of Cutter widgets. While it certainly reduces build times and resulting sizes, it cripple the user experience. I believe they should offer at least both builds - with and without.

The reason is we lost too many time trying to solve not understandable bugs and crashes with Python integration and QtWebEngine. Maybe with our future Python plugin integration it will be easier to bundle, and we can think of a "two builds" solution, or even a plugin (which would be more suitable imho), but anyway there's no way we spend more time on this right now.

[thestr4ng3r]

@xvilka if you can take the time to fix this, we might be able to ship builds with QtWebEngine again, because it is what blocks it: https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/11693

[maxandron]

Jupyter is nice, but it feels like overkill. It was a big pain to get Jupyter to work. It is also annoying as long as Cutter does not ship with QtWebEngine