https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate

🔥 The Hex Editor From Hell! 🔥
https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate

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🔥 The Hex Editor From Hell! 🔥

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate
• Owner: evanmiller
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-04-17T22:35:55.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-05-03T00:34:32.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-31T19:22:11.605Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: hex-editor
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 131 KB
• Stars: 655
• Watchers: 31
• Forks: 34
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# hecate: The Hex Editor From Hell!

> HECATE. O well done! I commend your pains;  

>    And every one shall share i' the gains;  

>    And now about the cauldron sing,  

>    Live elves and fairies in a ring,  

>    Enchanting all that you put in.  

> 

> --*Macbeth*, p. 56

Download latest release: **[Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows](https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate/releases)**

Compile from source:

    go get -u github.com/evanmiller/hecate

Run:

    $GOPATH/bin/hecate file1 [file2 [...]]

Hecate is a **terminal hex editor** unlike any you've ever seen: instead of putting

the (ASCII) representation of bytes way out on the right side of the screen, it

puts the interpreted values directly *beneath* the hex representation.

Behold:

![Hecate screenshot](http://www.evanmiller.org/images/hecate/screenshot2.png)

If that weren't exciting enough, you can move the cursor around using Vim-like

controls and interpret the underlying bytes as an integer, float, etc. --

perfect for your reverse-engineering needs.

But wait, there's more! Hecate (pronounced HECK-it, named after the Greek [goddess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate)

of witchcraft) features tabbed browsing, in-place editing, large-file support,

full-file searching, and arbitrary expressions for specifying an offset within

a file. Place the cursor over some bytes and choose a mode (**t** for text, **p**

for a bit pattern, **i** for an integer, **f** for a floating point) to see what

those bytes represent.  Toggle endianness with **e** and signedness with **u**.

Press **enter** to edit.

### Editing

Pressing **enter** brings up an edit field for the data under the cursor. Make

changes and press **enter** again to write changes to disk. Pressing **esc**

cancels any changes on the current position, otherwise exits edit mode.

Navigating passed the edges of the field moves the cursor. The expected format

depends on the cursor mode when entering edit mode.

Full list of commands:

hleftttext modeSshow tabs

jdownpbit pattern modeWhide tabs

kupiinteger modeAprevious tab

lrightffloat modeDnext tab

bleft 4 bytesHshrink cursorctrl-tnew tab

wright 4 bytesLgrow cursorctrl-wclose tab

^line startetoggle endiannessctrl-escroll down

$line endutoggle signednessctrl-yscroll up

gfile startadate decodingctrl-fpage down

Gfile end@set date epochctrl-bpage up

:jump to byte/search fileenteredit mode

xtoggle hexnnext match?help screen

What are you waiting for? Don't you want to edit any file on your computer? What could possibly go wrong?

> Your vessels and your spells provide,  

> Your charms and everything beside.  

> I am for th' air. This night I'll spend  

> Unto a dismal and a fatal end.

Download latest release: **[Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows](https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate/releases)**