I worked around the problem for now based on someone else's suggestion. I can't find the posting where I got it from but here's what I'm doing: * create a tool to open a file in binary * assign a shortcut key to that tool To create the tool: - configure > preferences > tools - add program - c ...
Would love to toggle between the two. Not only for the reason yyn gave but also because binary view doesn't allow editing. I could switch to text view, edit stuff, then switch to binary to see the results.