VS Code Hexeditor

This an extension for Visual Studio Code 1.46+ 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 support

Navigating a file

Editing a file

Requirements

Visual Studio Code 1.46+

How to Use

There are three ways to open a file as hex

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

Revert file command doesn't work (#55)

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

Release Notes

1.1.0

Added simple editing support for hex and decoded text
Fixed a bug preventing files over 18MB from being opened
Added more keyboard navigation support via Pgup, Pgdown, Ctrl + End/Home, and End/Home.
Fixed a bug with empty files not rendering correctly
Scroll position is now retained upon switching tabs

1.0.1

Add instructions to the README on how to use the extension
Add an Open with HexEditor command

1.0.0

Hex Editor initial release

Code of Conduct

https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct

HexEditor

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