VS Code Hexeditor

This an extension for Visual Studio Code which utilizes the custom editor API to allow viewing files as hex within VS Code.

Features

• Opening files as HEX
• Navigating and scrolling through them
• Viewing the hex values in various different formats
• Simple editing with undo, redo, copy, and paste support
• Find and Replace support

How to Use

There are three ways to open a file as hex

1. Trigger the command palette (Ctrl / Cmd + Shift + P) -> Reopen With -> Hex Editor
2. Right click a file -> Open With -> Hex Editor
3. Trigger the command palette (Ctrl / Cmd + Shift + P) -> Open File using Hex Editor

If you would like to use the hex editor as the default hex editor for certain file types you can add the workbench.editorAssociations setting to your settings.json.

For example, this would associate all files with .hex or .ini to open by default in the hex editor

    "workbench.editorAssociations": [
        {
            "viewType": "hexEditor.hexedit",
            "filenamePattern": "*.hex"
        },
        {
            "viewType": "hexEditor.hexedit",
            "filenamePattern": "*.ini"
        }
    ],

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• hexeditor.maxFileSize: How many MB you want the editor to try to open before warning you with the open anyways message

Known Issues

• Undoing a pending edit causes editor to get into a bad state 161
• Searching in large files can become hit or miss 149

To track all issues / file a new issue please go to the Github repo https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-hexeditor/issues

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Code of Conduct

https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct