afrantzis / bless

Bless - Gtk# Hex Editor
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[Feature] Highlight multiple segments #19

Open ghost opened 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

It would be helpful to be able to highlight many sections that I am certain I have identified (header, independent data segment). I'm currently reverse-engineering an old proprietary file format from the 90s and as I learn more, it would be amazing to be able to put that context/knowledge straight into Bless. Being able to highlight commented sections would be even more helpful.

This would require saving a metadata file alongside the binary, maybe in JSON format, containing something like:

{"Highlight": { "begin" : "0", "end" : "9", "color" : "yellow", "comment" : "This seems to be the header"}}

{"Highlight": { "begin" : "534", "end" : "579", "color" : "red", "comment" : "Most likely the embedded image"}}