vEdit treats files that do not have any “newline” characters in them as binary/data files. Files with text lines longer than about 4000 characters are also treated as binary/data files.
Binary/data files are usually edited in “Record” mode in which a uniform number of characters are displayed per line or “record”. This defaults to 64, but can be changed with CONFIG > File handling > File type. Selecting a value of “8” through “65535” selects Record mode and selects the number of characters displayed per line. The number of characters per line is referred to as the “record length” or sometimes “record size".
Setting the desired record length also handles files with “fixed-length records”. For example, files downloaded from IBM mainframes often have fixed-length records with record lengths of 80, 256 and other values. Most database files also have fixed-length records.
The record length is often greater than the width of the current window. The record can be viewed using horizontal scrolling or by wrapping the record onto multiple screen lines. CONFIG > Display options > Horizontal scroll margin controls how long lines are displayed.
In Record mode, any Line-Feed and Carriage-Return characters are no longer treated as “newline” characters. However, they may display as <LF> and <CR>. Similarly, control and graphics characters are displayed according to the current display mode. Repeatedly pressing Alt-D (the normal hot-key for VIEW > Toggle display mode ) will let you find the desired display mode. (This function is also on the toolbar.)