View special chars in Sublime Text

Question

I am using both Notepad2 and Sublime Text 3 and I prefer ST3 over Notepad2 as it has a lot of great features. One thing I miss very much though is the possibility to view special characters in a logfile.

If I have a logfile with this one line in it (<null> is the HEX char 0x00):

ERROR: Received invalid data string [<null><null>e<null><null>test</null>]

If I open it in Notepad2 I get this view:

If I open it in ST3 I get this HEX view:

Is it possible to get the same view in ST3 as in Notepad2, so I can see the special characters?

Answer 1

I just found this option which can be set in the User Settings:

// Files containing null bytes are opened as hexadecimal by default
"enable_hexadecimal_encoding": false

This gives exactly what I wanted: