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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2020-10-13 01:23:43 -0400 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2020-10-17 09:39:45 +0700 |
| commit | b107d270c2727b4c748b40ee8e7389a3bdf4a018 (patch) | |
| tree | 147e0a5f3f7dbba4277e87b4479401b2a98a039a /development | |
| parent | b5d68cbed84b17105fce988220b2832812716095 (diff) | |
development/tweak: Fix README.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'development')
| -rw-r--r-- | development/tweak/README | 26 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/development/tweak/README b/development/tweak/README index 044fe04d59b2c..532a13c0c9e69 100644 --- a/development/tweak/README +++ b/development/tweak/README @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ tweak (ncurses-based hex editor) Tweak is a hex editor. It allows you to edit a file at very low level, -letting you see the full and exact binary contents of the file. It can be -useful for modifying binary files such as executables, editing disk or CD -images, debugging programs that generate binary file formats incorrectly, -and many other things. +letting you see the full and exact binary contents of the file. It can +be useful for modifying binary files such as executables, editing disk +or CD images, debugging programs that generate binary file formats +incorrectly, and many other things. -Tweak uses a complex data structure based on B-trees, designed to make -almost all editing operations extremely fast, even when they are working -on huge amounts of data. +Tweak uses a complex data structure based on B-trees, designed to +make almost all editing operations extremely fast, even when they are +working on huge amounts of data. Tweak supports insert mode (not particularly useful if you're editing an executable file or a filesystem image, but can be extremely handy in other file formats such as PNG). -Cutting, copying and pasting within the file you are editing is extremely -efficient. No matter how big the chunk of data you are moving around - -even if it's a 200Mb section of a CD image - Tweak will always perform -the operation effectively instantly. +Cutting, copying and pasting within the file you are editing is +extremely efficient. No matter how big the chunk of data you are moving +around - even if it's a 200Mb section of a CD image - Tweak will always +perform the operation effectively instantly. Tweak supports lazy loading of the input file: rather than sucking it all into memory straight away, it simply remembers which parts of the -editing buffer are copies of which parts of the input file and refers to -the file on disk when it needs to. +editing buffer are copies of which parts of the input file and refers +to the file on disk when it needs to. |