Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I wouldn't use a program specifically designed for editing text to edit 
> binary.

> If it had a seperate mode for editing binary, I might use that. But I 
> would never, ever use a text editor running in text mode to edit raw 
> binary. That's just silly.

  You are missing the point. You said:

> OK, fair enough. However, I don't work with any file formats where such
> trailing spaces would be significant.

> I also don't work with any file formats which should ever contain a tab
> character, so I've configured my editor to strip those too.

  Which is contradictory with your earlier lamentation that you don't have
any hex editor. (If you never work with any file formats where automatically
stripping some characters breaks the file, what would you use a hex editor
for?)

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                                                          - Warp

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