hex

hex is yet another hex viewer. As of now, there are no advantages to it.

Plans

In the future, it should be able to automatically interpret fields within files via a set of Lua scripts.

Packages

Regular releases are sporadic. git master should be stable enough. You can get a package with the latest development version from Archlinux’s AUR, or from openSUSE Build Service for the rest of mainstream distributions. Consult the list of repositories and their respective links at:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/repositories/home:pjanouch:git

Building and Running

Build dependencies: CMake, pkg-config, help2man, liberty (included), termo (included)
Runtime dependencies: ncursesw, libunistring

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/pjanouch/hex.git
$ mkdir hex/build
$ cd hex/build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
$ make

To install the application, you can do either the usual:

# make install

Or you can try telling CMake to make a package for you. For Debian it is:

$ cpack -G DEB
# dpkg -i hex-*.deb

Note that for versions of CMake before 2.8.9, you need to prefix cpack with fakeroot or file ownership will end up wrong.

Having the program installed, optionally create a configuration file and run it.

Configuration

Create ~/.config/hex/hex.conf with contents like the following:

colors = {
	header     = ""
	highlight  = "bold"
	bar        = "reverse"
	bar_active = "ul"
	even       = ""
	odd        = ""
	selection  = "reverse"
}

Terminal caveats

This application aspires to be as close to a GUI as possible. It expects you to use the mouse (though it’s not required). Terminals are, however, somewhat tricky to get consistent results on, so be aware of the following:

• use a UTF-8 locale to get finer resolution progress bars and scrollbars

• Xterm needs XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true for the default bindings to work

• urxvt’s vtwheel plugin sabotages scrolling

Contributing and Support

Use this project’s GitHub to report any bugs, request features, or submit pull requests. If you want to discuss this project, or maybe just hang out with the developer, feel free to join me at irc://irc.janouch.name, channel #dev.

License

hex is written by Přemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>.

You may use the software under the terms of the ISC license, the text of which is included within the package, or, at your option, you may relicense the work under the MIT or the Modified BSD License, as listed at the following site:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html