[Info-vax] Hex display order option for DUMP ?

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 5:18:10 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:

> I do wish modern word processors had WordPerfect's Reveal Codes 
> functionality where you could not only see the formatting codes 
> but actually directly edit them as well.

I hear this all the time from former WordPerfect users.

No other word processor offers that function because no other word processor uses embedded formatting codes. They have proper in-memory data structures for encoding style runs and attaching attributes to text.

I can remember, in my brief bouts with WordPerfect, encountering such amusing little peccadilloes like somehow managing to delete the “end-bold” code at the end of a stretch of bolded text while leaving the “begin-bold” code intact, whereupon the entire rest of the document turned to bold text ...