hexedit, a hex editor, by Pascal Rigaux

As you can see, I have had hexedit [1] for years and haven't updated it for six years.

I don't use it often, but whenever I need to view or edit in hex, it's my goto editor. I am not going to list all keys, you can read the manpage [2] or (0:03).

Here is a few points what you see in the video

(0:10) jumping to beginning/end of file [angle brackets]
(0:12) switching between hexadecimal and ASCII [tab]
(0:13) editing and rolling back [ASCII/0-f],[backspace]
(0:18) jumping to address [enter]
(0:20) searching forward for hexadecimal string [/,C-S]
(0:22) searching backward for hexadecimal string [C-R]
(0:28) marking for operations [C-Space]
(0:30) copying the marked section [Esc-W]
(0:33) pasting the copied data [Ctrl-Y]
(0:40) filling with hexadecimal string [Esc-I]

I saw it on GitHub (not sure if on Trending or from search result), and realized that I had never made a video of it. It's a simple editor, but the only problem I have is I never could remember the keys, but [F1] is very handy.

Believe me or not, I used it quite a few times just to truncate [Esc-T] the last character out, which is a '\n'.

And no, I am not to upgrade to 1.2.13, it works fine, if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

And I just realized it has `--color`, it is colorful after I uploaded this video, you can see a screenshot on my blog [3].

$$$

# YouTube forces me NOT to use redirection
# 2016, still like 1996, angle brackets are big NO-NO
for i in {0..255}; do printf -v x '\\x%02x' $i; echo -ne $x; done | tee testfile

$$$

* Hex files since 1998-07-21
* Gentoo 1.2.12 (2010-01-10, pre v1.2.13 (2013-03-01))
* In C
* By Pascal Rigaux, et al.
* GPLv2

[1]: https://github.com/pixel/hexedit
[2]: http://rigaux.org/hexedit.html
[3]: https://yjlv.blogspot.com/2016/02/hexedit-standard-hex-editor.html