XVI: hex editor for Linux terminal

Hex editor with ncurses based user interface:

Low resource utilization, minimum dependencies;
Support for some VIM keyboard shortcuts (hjkl, :, /, etc);
Visual diff between several files;
Highlighting the current position and changed data;
Insert bytes into the middle of the file;
Cutting bytes from the middle of the file;
Filling the range with a pattern;
Undo/redo support;
Search and goto;
Customizable UI colors.

Install

Arch users can install the program via AUR;
AppImage is available in Releases.

Configure

The editor searches for the configuration file with name config in the following directories:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xvi
$HOME/.config/xvi

Sample file is available here.

See man xvirc for details.

Build

The project uses Rust and Cargo:

cargo build --release