[Features] ASCII Column Spacing and Color Highlight ASCII/Hex Text

[TurtleP]

What feature would you like to see?

I would like it if ImHex would allow for these two things:

1. Having spacing applied to the ASCII column to make it a bit more readable. It could be a configuration option, but by default could be the same as the Hex column's. Here's an example from Visual Studio Code, where it's just so much easier to read the ASCII text:

2. When bookmarking, it would be a bit nicer to have some pre-defined common colors to choose from. On top of that, having the option to instead highlight the ASCII or Hex values displayed instead of the background would be nice and would also make it nicer to read, perhaps.

How will this feature be useful to you and others?

Generally speaking, this would probably improve readability when looking at the editor. It would also be beneficial as everything listed would be optional, so if someone didn't want to turn any of them on, could turn them off.

However, with the pre-defined bookmark colors, I think that might just be a "nice to have". It wouldn't require needing to think what colors to use and the user can simply apply a color almost immediately after bookmarking.

Request Type

• I can provide a PoC for this feature or am willing to work on it myself and submit a PR

[WerWolv]

Hey!

Latest two commits add a bunch of default colors to the bookmark color picker:

as well as two new settings to adjust the padding between byte cells and character cells