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Janus, a simple text editor (lemmy.world)

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For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It's nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it can highlight code syntax for most popular languages. Feel free to check it out on the github.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you use binary editing for?

Is binary editing the only reason to build something instead of using gedit?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The binary editing is there in case a file of yours gets corrupted or if you just want to see the insides of a given file in a human readable way. I used to use windows and one of the things that got me into programming was the realization that all files were simply data on the inside, something I explored using windows notepad. As for gedit, I was previously using leafpad and so the binary editing is meant to be a step up from leafpad's inability to show data, not gedit's capable escape sequence system.