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by themk 924 days ago
This isn't so much a "trick" as it is the main purpose of xxd. xxd is distributed with vim (as in, I'm pretty sure if you want to send a patch to xxd, you send it to the vim repo). One of it's primary purposes is to allow for the editing of binary files in Vim.
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I had no idea!