Editors and Viewers

Edit or view text or hex

Terminaux provides a way to edit or view a hexadecimal representation of bytes or lines of text in an interactive way without any hassle. The following classes are available for you to use:

• HexEditInteractive

  • Represents an interactive hex editor

• HexViewInteractive

  • Represents an interactive hex viewer

• TextEditInteractive

  • Represents an interactive text editor

• TextViewInteractive

  • Represents an interactive text viewer

Hex editor and viewer

The interactive hex editor allows you to edit either a file or a byte array byte by byte, while giving you basic editing abilities, such as replacing all occurrences of a byte value with another byte value, finding a byte value or a group of it, and so on. This is all done with the help of the screen feature in Terminaux to allow visual editing.

In the other hand, the interactive hex viewer only allows you to view a hexadecimal representation of each byte without any editing functionality. This allows quick viewing of bytes in hexadecimal.

You can consult the list of keybindings through the K key.

Text editor and viewer

The interactive text editor allows you to seamlessly and interactively edit multi-line text. Inspired by VIM, the popular extensible terminal text editor, this text editor features two modes:

• Normal mode: You can perform some basic operations, such as finding and replacing, inserting a new line, removing a line, deleting a character, and entering the Insertion mode.

• Insertion mode: You can write your own text wherever you want

In the other hand, the interactive text viewer only allows you to view what's written and to search for a portion of the text.

You can consult the list of keybindings through the K key.