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app hextazy

A colorful hexadecimal editor

by 0xfalafel and 2 contributors

1 unstable release

0.7.0 Sep 23, 2024

#109 in Command line utilities

Download history 154/week @ 2024-09-22 20/week @ 2024-09-29 7/week @ 2024-10-06

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MIT license

81KB
1.5K SLoC

Hextazy

A coloful hexadecimal editor, inspired by hexyl.

Illustration with all possible bytes

Build

git clone https://github.com/0xfalafel/hextazy.git
cd hextazy
cargo build

Install

An amd64 linux binary is available: https://github.com/0xfalafel/hextazy/releases/latest/.

You can also install via cargo:

git clone https://github.com/0xfalafel/hextazy.git
cargo install --path ./hextazy

If you don't have cargo installed. There are installation instructions here https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html.

Archlinux

You can install from the AUR using an AUR helper like so:

paru -S hextazy

Usage

hextazy take the file to edit as an argument.

Usage: hextazy [file]

hextazy ./test/all_bytes.bin

You can edit the file directly. Use Tab to switch between the Hexdecimal and Ascii editors.

Once you're done, press q or Ctrl + C to exit.

Shortcuts

Core shortcuts

Key Combination Action
Ctrl + Q Exit the app.
Ctrl + C Exit the app without saving.
q  Exit the app (in hex editor mode).
Tab   Switch between ascii and hexadecimal editor mode.
Ctrl + J  Switch between Insert and Overwrite mode.
Ctrl + Z  Undo the last write.
Ctrl + S  Save your changes.
Del  Delete the following byte in Insert mode.
: Open the command bar.
Esc Close the command bar.
/ Open the search bar.

Handy shortcuts

Key Combination Action
Ctrl + →  Jump 4 bytes to the right.
Ctrl + ←  Jump 4 bytes to the left.
Ctrl + Y  Redo, cancel the last undo.
Ctrl + U  Undo all changes.
Backspace Move left / Undo the modification of the previous byte.
Key Combination Action
/4142 Search the hex value 0x4142, and the ascii string "4142".
n Go to the next search result.
Shift + n Go to the previous search result.
:s/abc Search the string "acb".
:x/4142   Search the hex value 0x4142.
:xi/4142  Search the hex value in reverse order: 0x4241.

Commands

The command bar is opened with : in the hexadecimal editor mode.

Command Action
: Open the command bar.
:q Close the app.
:0x1234 Jump at the address 0x1234.
:i or :insert Switch to insert mode.
:o or :overwrite Switch to overwrite mode.
:hexyl Switch to the hexyl sytle.
:!hexyl Switch to the default sytle.

Dependencies

~9–20MB
~284K SLoC