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Comparison of hex editors

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The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.

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General

GUI	Latest stable version	Windows	Macintosh
	2.5.0.0	Win95, WinNT4 and up
	16.0.3
	6.1.0
	7.2		, ver. 6.2
	29.1
	2.7	Windows XP and up
	8.81
	1.37.4
	6.24.2
	26.10 (Windows)
18.0 (Linux / Mac OS X)
	21.0	Win95 and up
	9.1.0

Features

Maximum file size	Partial file loading	Disk sector editing	Process memory editing	Data inspector	Bit editing	Insert
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bytes	Character encodings(ao)	Search Unicode	File formats	Disassembler	File compare	Find in files	Bookmarks	Macro	Text editor		HxD		010 Editor	beye	Emacs	FlexHex	Hiew	VEDIT	UltraEdit	WinHex	vim	ImHex	Maximum file size	Partial file loading	Disk sector editing	Process memory editing	Data inspector	Bit editing	Insert
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bytes	Character encodings(ao)	Search Unicode	File formats	Disassembler	File compare	Find in files	Bookmarks	Macro	Text editor
8 EiB							ANSI, ASCII, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh
8 EiB							ANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Custom
8 PiB							ANSI, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh			AVR, Java, x86, i386, x86-64, ARM/XScale, PowerPC, PPC64}}
Limited by RAM
Unlimited							ANSI, OEM, UTF-16
Unlimited							ASCII, OEM, Unicode, custom			x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE 4.2, 3DNow! - all assembler, ARM}}
Standard, 2 GiB, Pro 64, unlimited		DOS version only}}					ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, custom
4 GiB							ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Mac, Unix, UTF-8
Unlimited							support of these formats: ANSI, UNICODE, OEM, UTF-8/UTF-16, EBCDIC, ASCII					data-sort-value="Yes" and replace
Limited by RAM							ASCII, ISO-8859, DOS (OEM), UTF-8, UTF-16, partial EBCDIC (compilation required), unicode
Unlimited							ANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Shift-JIS, Custom

Notes

ao: ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII.

References

"GNU Emacs".
"Releases · WerWolv/ImHex".
"Vim 9.1 released : Vim online".
[http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ HxD features]
"010 Editor - Binary Template Repository". SweetScape Software Inc..
"beye / Code / [r238] /newtwindow-branch/src/plugins/bin/".
"GNU Emacs 23.2 NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.".
"Buffers".
"Does Emacs have problems with large files?".
"GNU emacs manual - Narrowing".
"Special Input for Incremental Search".
"Bookmarks".
"User-defined Data Fields". Inv Softworks LLC.
The file "FlexHEX\Structures\Disk.fsd" of FlexHex 2.71 installation contains example parsers for FAT and NFTS file system headers
"Additional Templates for WinHex & X-Ways Forensics". X-Ways Software Technology AG.
WinHex 20.6 release package "winhex.zip" contains 14 template files with ".tpl" suffix with parsers for various storage system formats.
[http://www.winhex.com/winhex/scripting.html WinHex: Scripting]
:help eval
vimdiff
[https://github.com/MattesGroeger/vim-bookmarks vim-bookmarks]
"ImHex-Patterns".

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