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by userbinator 2714 days ago
I'm also not a fan of the colouring, especially in this application, because when you're looking at a hexdump chances are you don't care about ASCII or whitespace --- and it's not as if you couldn't tell whether something is in the ASCII range, given the character representation in the right column anyway.

The border lines don't help much either and seem more like decoration; addresses to the left and an indexing header on the top, like the traditional "canonical" hexdump format, would be far more useful.

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How can you tell the difference between an unprintable character and whatever encodes them (I've most often seen '.'), in a single character cell, without color?