hex view width

Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 15:46:27 UTC 2011


On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hex view (F3->F4) produces a nice address-10h literal-string output like old
> DOS DEBUG when viewed in an 80 column terminal. However, the literal in the
> center varies in width according to available with, so that on a 128 column
> wide tty (e.g., the virtual consoles) it's 18h wide instead of 10h. Is there
> some way to force the literals to a 10h width when more width is available?
> Finding my place while viewing is problematic when the width is not a
> multiple of 10h.

src/viewer/hex.c appears to be where all the magic happens. Doesn't
look like there is a user-configurable setting, but maybe you can
patch it. :)



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