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MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

MadEdit Platforms

tick-square Linux
tick-square Windows

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MadEdit Overview

MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions, e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings (UTF8/16/32,Big5,GBK...) and WordCount.

Features

MadEdit can run under Linux, FreeBSD and MS-Windows platforms.
Edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.
In Hex-Mode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).
Users can change the encoding of files at runtime like Web-Browsers.
Supports many encodings, e.g. Unicode(UTF-8, UTF-16/32 with Little or Big Endian), Big5, GBK and S-JIS etc.
Supports Unicode CJK Ext-B.
If users input a character that is not supported by current encoding, this character will be converted to U+XXXX. Unicode format.
Regular Expression search & replace (by using Boost.Xpressive).
Opens multiple files on single instance.
Supports syntax-highlighting of many programming languages, e.g. awk, C/C++, CSS, diff/patch, D, DOS Batch Script, Flash ActionScript, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lua, Pascal, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX Shell Script, x86 Assembly, XML, Fortran, TeX/LaTeX, Squirrel, C#, Visual Basic, ASP(VBScript), SQL, Verilog, VHDL.
MadEdit can view ASCII-Art files under Win32 platform.

MadEdit Features

tick-square Hex Editor
tick-square Syntax Highlighting

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