I was waiting for someone else to mention emacs before I braved it.

I use emacs for pretty much everything; writing this mail, coding,
git, magit, svn, cvs, file browsing, image viewing, scp, ssh, hex
editing, and ascii art.

                                                                 \ | /
             +-----------+                                        \|/
             |           |     +-----------+                       |
             |           |     |           |     +----------+      |
             |    S1     +-----+     C     +-----+    tx    |------+
             |           |     |           |     +----------+
             |           |     +-----------+
             +-----------+

The above presumes a monospaced font.  Your mileage may vary.  ;-)

I use it on Mac OS X and Linux, but that doesn't matter, it pretty
much works the same on any operating system.

The hex editor mode can be entered by typing c-x hexl-mode enter.

References:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Editing-Binary-Fi=
les.html
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HexlMode

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