I am using Scite every day at work to open files containing NULL characters (that Geany can't open). Scite is based on Scintilla, and it doesn't stop at the first NULL character. I guess it should be possible to open binary files in Geany too ...

2011/4/19 Matthew Brush <mbrush@codebrainz.ca>
On 04/19/11 02:30, Lex Trotman wrote:
[...]
I thought about writing such a plugin before, but not using Scintilla
directly, I think I even might've wrote a little code for it.  I was looking
at using GtkHex[1] and messing with the main documents tab like the Devhelp
plugin does.  Getting a hex viewing widget into Geany is pretty easy, but
hooking it in to handle different filetypes and whatnot would probably be a
little harder.

Not sure what you mean by handle filetypes, I thought the point of
something like this would be to handle it as hex, no matter what the
file was?

My idea was for viewing/editing binary files only, but it could be any file really.  But mostly I was referring to things like tying in with the document open signal, figuring out if it's a binary file, hijacking the "document open" so it's displayed in GHex/GtkHex, preventing Geany from trying to display it in Scintilla, integration with all the other features like fonts, zooming, printing, etc.  That was the point when I decided to just use an external hex viewer for binary files :)

Cheers,
Matthew Brush

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