[Feature] Go to next different byte in hex view.

omicronns commented 11 months ago

What feature would you like to see?

When byte is selected in hex view, a shortcut to go to next different byte would be available.

How will this feature be useful to you and others?

When analyzing large firmware files, it's common for it to have a large blocks of same value eg. FF. Sometimes it's quite time consuming to navigate to next block of meaningful data. Currently I use entropy view to go close to some block of data and then scroll manually. There are some problems with this approach:

It's hard to see where exactly entropy view pointer is, so it is possible to overshoot and miss some header data if after it there is another block of same values.
Sometimes when block of data is small, it's not even visible in entropy graph.
Even if you set the pointer before block of data it still requires good amount of scrolling to get there for large files.

Request Type

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

Additional context?

No response

paxcut commented 11 months ago

If all you need is to find the position of the next byte not equal to some value (call it x) then the following pattern

while($[$]==x) $+=1;

should work. Just place the cursor at the starting point and set x to the value and run the pattern. The cursor should move to the value after the first non x has been found.

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