hexed - console-based hex editor

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hexed - console-based hex editor

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hexed - a Windows console-based hex editor

Useful link:
• GitHub program page: https://github.com/samizzo/hexed
• GitHub download page: https://github.com/samizzo/hexed/releases/tag/1.0.32
• GitHub direct download: https://github.com/samizzo/hexed/releas ... /hexed.exe
• version: 1.0.32
• release date: 31 May 2019
• program size: 28 KB

Keyboard shortcuts

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Navigation
• Left/Right/Up/Down - Move cursor
• h/l/k/j - Vi-style equivalent of the above (Move cursor)
• Home/End - Jump to start/end of current row
• Ctrl + Home/End - Jump to start/end of entire file
• Page Up/Page Down - Go back or forward a page at a time
• Ctrl + Page Up/Page Down - Skip to first/last row of the currently displayed page while maintaining current column

Editing
• Insert/Escape - Enter/exit edit mode (goes into hex editing by default)
• Tab - Switch between hex editing and ASCII editing

Misc
• F5 - Redraw display
• Escape - Quit (when not in edit mode)
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Last edited by rbon on Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:23 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: hexed - console-based hex editor

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Looks really good -- is there a search / find function I'm not seeing?

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webfork wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:58 am Looks really good -- is there a search / find function I'm not seeing?
NO - no search feature
.. but is possible ask it to author by open an issue.
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Re: hexed - console-based hex editor

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rbon wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:27 am
webfork wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:58 am Looks really good -- is there a search / find function I'm not seeing?
NO - no search feature
.. but is possible ask it to author by open an issue.
Should I? I rarely use hex editors so I'm not sure that's a needed function. Maybe it was left out intentionally?

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