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Bugs

This is a list of known bugs and missing features.

Before you report a missing feature, please make sure it's not already available under Tips.

• The buttons in the Find banner may overlap with the left side of the window
• Generating the glyphs for the HFRepresenterTextViews could be faster
• All sorts of UI artifacts when run on Tiger (will never be fixed)
• Switching the font seems to re-set the font size to 13pt every single time
• Changing font settings work for the current document but revert back to Monaco-10 for every new document (although I can see that the new settings are correctly saved in the preferences plist).
• Clicking the up arrow in the scroll bar goes to the end instead of scrolling. The down arrow is working correctly.
• The mouse wheel does not work while above the line number column.
• Framework: HFLineCountingRepresenter doesn't set its digit advance when unarchived from a nib (fix: call -updateFontAndLineHeight at the end of -initWithCoder:)
• Changing fonts to one with a smaller lineheight causes the view to not resize vertically; there will be a blank space at the bottom (hex view turned off may impact behavior).
• Clicking in the scroll well above the scroller causes it to jump to the bottom.

• Should have a command line launcher (hexf filename or hexf < filename or hexf > filename)
• Should be able to dig in to application bundles. (i.e.) to open the binary for the app.
• Dragging or dropping text is not implemented (you can drag and drop files onto the app icon, but not into the window).
• Context menus aren't provided
• Need a way to open devices
• Need a way to show hidden files
• Need support for "bookmarks"
• Need a way to edit part of a file
• When only a blank non-edited window is open, opening a file could use that one instead of opening a new window (like in TextEdit)
• Actually, why is a blank window opened at all? I think starting an empty document from scratch would be an extremely rare occurrence in a text editor, and this behaviour just forces people to close a window they didn't want. It is also not very Mac-like behaviour.
• Commands to Increase/Decrease font size (e.g. Command +/-)
• Unicode: Displaying UTF-16 (or even UTF-8) data could be rather useful (and not quite trivial, I assume), similarly supporting more than just ASCII in the Find command would be helpful
• Add a link to your web page in the Help menu, remove the dysfunctional Help menu item.
• Preferred line number mode (dec/hex) should be saved to user defaults.
• Text only mode that honors line breaks would allow for quickly viewing really long text files efficiently.
• In text mode, low-order ASCII chars: \n, \r, \t, etc, could be displayed in backslash notation instead of as dots, a la hexdump.
• Support displaying a hash of the selected data range, to facilitate manually comparing different files or chunks of files
• Binary diff UI
• "Fill" command, and/or delete in overwrite mode filling with null bytes.
• Add ability to set an offset for the starting line number, useful if you're viewing only portions of something and the first byte is at a given offset.
• Double-click to select byte group or ASCII word. Triple-click to select line.

• Having the old visual style back would be nice, with spaces between each byte and separators between each word.

• Move/jump to offset not just entered in decimal, but hex; maybe as a preference? hex, decimal, or the current line number display mode.