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this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
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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.