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