HxD: can add "paste special" function?

fromnuaa · Post by **fromnuaa** » 02 Aug 2006 10:36

I often use "paste special" in Hexworkshop, can you add this function in HxD?

HxD is a great program, I like it so much!

Post by **Maël** » 02 Aug 2006 18:08

Yes, I'll add something like this.

fromnuaa · Post by **fromnuaa** » 03 Aug 2006 02:21

Thank you!

Here is another hex editor (freeware), it has stopped further development for long time. I think it has some features can be used as reference:

http://www.catch22.net/software/hexedit.asp

Post by **Maël** » 03 Aug 2006 02:34

Do you have something special in mind?

fromnuaa · Post by **fromnuaa** » 03 Aug 2006 02:57

hexedit 1.2 has some useful features:
paste special
paste from
copy to
clear
display data as hex,decimal,octal and binary, but it don't support copy these 4 format data into a text file.

Post by **Maël** » 04 Aug 2006 12:31

clear can be done using "fill selection", I will not add an extra menu item for this

display data as hex,decimal,octal and binary

Maybe sometime in the future but this isn't a priority.

paste special
yes, like I said above

paste from
copy to
Why not use the normal copy and paste?

fromnuaa · Post by **fromnuaa** » 08 Aug 2006 03:29

Maël wrote:clear can be done using "fill selection", I will not add an extra menu item for this

"clear" is a shortcut of using "fill selection with 0x00", it is more convinent to use. Please consider this feature again.

display data as hex,decimal,octal and binary
Maybe sometime in the future but this isn't a priority.

Yes, I agree that it isn't a priority, but this feature can be used to indicate HxD is a super hex editor...

paste from
copy to
Why not use the normal copy and paste?

"paste from" and "copy to" can be done using normal copy and paste, but they are more convinent, they are shortcuts users ofter used, please consider to include them in next version.

Post by **Maël** » 08 Aug 2006 07:31

My point is that I don't want to crowd HxD with similar operations.
If something is new and can't be easily done with existing features then this makes sense.

fromnuaa wrote:
display data as hex,decimal,octal and binary
Maybe sometime in the future but this isn't a priority.
Yes, I agree that it isn't a priority, but this feature can be used to indicate HxD is a super hex editor...

I want to avoid to implement everything that might be good or just makes the feature list longer.
My TODO-list is long, this feature needs quite some modifications, I doubt this will be often used, so I focus on the other things first.

"paste from" and "copy to" can be done using normal copy and paste, but they are more convinent, they are shortcuts users ofter used, please consider to include them in next version. Smile

How often do you use them? Do you often want to paste an entire file?
The problem is all this leads to having too many shortcuts; in the end you will not find any of them.