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Could recommend for a console hex editor under Cygwin?

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There is a package called hexedit that comes up in Cygwin's package search, which I assume is a port of the same tool that is available in most Linux distributions under the same name.

I've used said utility (as installed from the Debian repositories) under Linux, and it did the job I was wanting it to do. I've not tried the version in Cygwin though so it could be a different tool with the same name.

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Both vi and Emacs can do that and both are available under Cygwin.

Note that both Emacs and vi can be run in a console or in windowed mode.

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  • vim++ .. has native win32 binaries (not only cygwin). vim does hex editing via a helper tool called "xxd".
    – akira
    Oct 18, 2010 at 11:53
  • in emacs use the hexl-find-file to work with hexl editor (wee
    – zinking
    Nov 30, 2013 at 14:38
  • Thanks, but vi is miserable for editing binary if you have to insert or delete bytes! Sadly, xxd does not seem to have a way to omit the offset, other than using the PDF (completely unformatted) style. Apr 23, 2020 at 20:06
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I've used bvi. Its home page is on sourceforge and there is a Cygwin package for it. As the name implies, its UI is very much like vi.

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