p2s will run the exact command in progCmd.

If progInput is defined for the active filter, then Pork2Sausage (p2s) will write the contents of the active selection, encoded as UTF-16 LE, into that path if it’s not defined, p2s assumes that you have provided another method for progCmd to get its input.

ini file that you have to have a selection made… if there is no selection made, it will send the empty string (or maybe a NUL character) to the converter.Īlso, you have to be careful on the command-line arguments for your command when you are defining your config file. So, it is implied (but not explicitly stated) in the Pork2Sausage default. (I like xxd for that sort of process, because xxd on the file will convert it to a hexdump, and xxd -r on the hexdump will convert it back to a file, so set up a “Pork to Sausage” rule for each direction of the xxd / xxd -r pair, and you should easily be able to go back and , Or I believe you could use the “Pork To Sausage” plugin, or one of the other “convert my text” suggestions in this FAQ to convert the contents of the active editor tab through the xxd or od command so that the output of the converter temporarily replaces the contents of the editor pane. So you can either run the external utility from the command line first (like xxd binary.file > ) and then open in Notepad++. There are plenty of binary-to-hex converters – two that I’ve recommended before: you can download xxd here or you can get od and a bunch of other gnu/linux-like utilities here, where od -A x -x filename can give similar information to xxd’s default output)

Using the Hex Editor plugin is one way to try to “trick” it into being a hex editor, but it’s not 100% effective, as you have found – and it’s not actively maintained, so it is becoming less-and-less compatible as Notepad++ goes through its constant updates. Notepad++ is by its very nature a text editor, not a binary/hex editor.

How to compare in notepad++