Editing Bless

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|purpose=Bless is a high quality, full featured hex editor. 
|homepage=http://home.gna.org/bless/
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|platforms=Mono >= 1.1.14 and Gtk#2 >= 2.8
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[[Category:Binary & Hexidecimal Editing]]

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[[Category:Binary Data]]

== Description ==
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Bless is a high quality, full featured hex editor.

It is written in mono/Gtk# and its primary platform is GNU/Linux. However it should be able to run without problems on every platform that mono and Gtk# run.

Bless currently provides the following features:

* Efficient editing of large data files and block devices.
* Multilevel undo - redo operations.
* Customizable data views.
* Fast data rendering on screen.
* Multiple tabs.
* Fast find and replace operations.
* A data conversion table.
* Advanced copy/paste capabilities.
* Highlighting of selection pattern matches in the file.
* Plugin based architecture.
* Export of data to text and html (others with plugins).
* Bitwise operations on data.
* A comprehensive user manual.


== User Experiences ==
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== Development Activity ==
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