wxMEdit

Spec sheet

Product

wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Platforms

The project lists Windows, ReactOS, Wine, Linux, BSDs, macOS, OpenIndiana, other Unix-like operating systems and Haiku OS as supported environments.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Support

The project links to GitHub Issues for support.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The GitHub repository identifies the project license as GPL-3.0.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Automatic updates

It checks for updates automatically.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Downloads

The downloads page lists version 3.2 packages for Windows, Linux distributions, FreeBSD and macOS.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Editing modes

It edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Encoding

It supports many encodings, including UTF-8, UTF-16/32, ISO-8859 variants, Windows-1250–1258, KOI8-R/U, GB18030, Big5 and Shift-JIS.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Large files

In Hex mode, it can open files up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Maintenance

The project describes its purpose as providing a continually maintained text and hex editor with bug fixes, improvements and refactoring.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Multifile use

It can open multiple files in a single instance.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Search

It supports regular-expression search and replace.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Syntax highlighting

It supports syntax highlighting for languages including C/C++, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML and others.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Unicode

It supports non-BMP Unicode characters such as CJK extension characters, mathematical symbols, musical symbols and emoji.Read 4 Oct 2026 · wxmedit.github.io

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Hex Editors#24 of 327.3