https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6876
--- Comment #2 from Caleb Jaren <calebj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-02-27 15:05:02 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
Comments inline (hope it helps):
> By "select and/or highlight packet bytes" I assume you're referring to bytes in
> the hex/text dump pane; is that correct?
Specifically, I intended to refer to the "Packet Bytes" pane. Does that answer
the question?
>
> Currently, that pane is implemented as a simple-minded text widget, so you can
> select raw text, but not particular bytes. There are a number of reasons not
> to implement it as a simple-minded text widget, including making it take a
> *lot* less work to set up for a very large chunk of data; another consequence
> might be that selecting could involve selecting bytes rather than text, and
> could even cause the corresponding fields in the packet detail pane to be
> highlighted, i.e. showing to which fields those bytes correspond.
Regardless of the above, I think we're on the same wavelength here. I do a lot
of IDS signature writing where manually byte-counting is a painful part of the
job. I'd *much* rather select bytes and have the corresponding text highlighted
than the other way around, especially if I can get a count of the selected
bytes in (I think) the expert info bar at the very bottom.
>
> It might make it a bit more difficult to cut the raw text display and paste it
> into another window, but it might make it *easier* to cut a sequence of bytes
> and paste it either as a hex dump or as raw bytes.
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