On 10 May 2011 00:33, Johann SAUNIER jsaunier.devel@gmail.com wrote:
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 ...
Depends on the interface between Scite and Scintilla, most of the functions from Scintilla accept null terminated text so they stop. There are a few that use lengths and will accept NUL characters. It would mean re-writing all the Geany interface to Scintilla to use only those functions, but for little gain and much pain (probably a period of many bugs).
In general reading binary files isn't a common part of development workflow (or we would have lots of requests for it) so adding it to Geany would not be a priority.
Cheers Lex