ip74 wrote:What do you all think about the feature "Hex Insert/Delete" in "Hex Functions" menu?

1. Open a new file in UltraEdit with Ctrl+N and make sure that the file is an ASCII/ANSI file with DOS line terminators.
   See indications on status bar at bottom of UltraEdit main window and use the appropriate commands in File - Conversions in case of having a different encoding or different line termination type configured for new files.
   
2. Copy & paste following script code into the new file.
   

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   // Is any file opened in UltraEdit / UEStudio?
   if (UltraEdit.document.length > 0)
   {
      // Is active file opened in hex edit mode?
      if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isHexModeOn())
      {
         // Does the active clipboard contain only hexadecimal values in
         // ASCII with always exactly two hexadecimal characters per byte
         // and without or with whitespaces around them?
         if (UltraEdit.clipboardContent.search(/^\s*(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\s*)+$/) == 0)
         {
            // Get the hexadecimal values in ASCII without the whitespaces.
            var sHexAscii = UltraEdit.clipboardContent.replace(/\s+/g,"");
            // Clear the clipboard.
            UltraEdit.clearClipboard();
            // Write to clipboard the bytes according to hexadecimal values.
            for (var nCharIndex = 0; nCharIndex < sHexAscii.length; nCharIndex += 2)
            {
               var nByteValue = parseInt(sHexAscii.substr(nCharIndex,2),16);
               UltraEdit.clipboardContent += String.fromCharCode(nByteValue);
            }
         }
      }
      // Execute paste command independent on editing mode and
      // clipboard content was modified by the script at all.
      UltraEdit.activeDocument.paste();
   }
   

   You can remove all comment lines starting with // after 0 or more spaces to make execution a little bit faster.
   
3. Using command File - Save As and store the file for example with name SmartHexPaste.js into a directory of your choice, for example %APPDATA%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\scripts whereby subdirectory scripts must be most likely created first within Save As dialog.
   
4. Close the script file and click on menu item Scripts in menu Scripting.
   
5. Click on button Add, browse to just saved script file, select it, enter in field Description for example
   Pastes hexadecimal values in ASCII as binary in hex edit mode
   (optional, not required) and click on button Open.
   
6. Double click with primary mouse button into cell of column Hotkey in row of just added script, press Ctrl+V and then click into any other cell with primary mouse button to assign this hotkey to the script. Click on button OK to save modified list and close the Scripts dialog.
   
7. Although it is not really necessary, it is best to open now Advanced - Configuration - Key Mapping, navigate in list of Commands to the command EditPaste, and click on button Remove to remove Ctrl+V as hotkey for this command.
   
8. Click next on configuration tree on Scripting and uncheck setting Show status information in output window which disables overwriting current contents of active output window by status and error information output usually to output window on running a script. Uncheck also setting Show cancel dialog in same configuration dialog.
   
9. Close the configuration dialog with a click on button OK to take over changed key mapping and scripting configuration settings which are saved on next exit of UltraEdit also into uedit*.uek and uedit*.ini file (or Windows registry).

1. hex edit mode is enabled for active file
   
   AND
   
2. the active clipboard contains an ASCII text with hexadecimal values without or with whitespaces (space, tab, carriage return, line-feed, ...) between and/or around the ASCII representation of the hexadecimal values

if (UltraEdit.document.length > 0)
{
   var sClipboardContent = "";
   if (UltraEdit.activeDocument.isHexModeOn())
   {
      if (UltraEdit.clipboardContent.search(/^\s*(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}\s*)+$/) == 0)
      {
         sClipboardContent = UltraEdit.clipboardContent;
         var sHexAscii = UltraEdit.clipboardContent.replace(/\s+/g,"");
         UltraEdit.clearClipboard();
         for (var nCharIndex = 0; nCharIndex < sHexAscii.length; nCharIndex += 2)
         {
            var nByteValue = parseInt(sHexAscii.substr(nCharIndex,2),16);
            UltraEdit.clipboardContent += String.fromCharCode(nByteValue);
         }
      }
   }
   UltraEdit.activeDocument.paste();
   if (sClipboardContent.length) UltraEdit.clipboardContent = sClipboardContent;
}