A custom editor extension for Visual Studio Code which provides a hex editor for viewing and manipulating files in their raw hexadecimal representation.
There are three ways to open a file in the hex editor:
The hex editor can be set as the default editor for certain file types by using the workbench.editorAssociations
setting. For example, this would associate all files with extensions .hex
and .ini
to use the hex editor by default:
"workbench.editorAssociations": {
"*.hex": "hexEditor.hexedit",
"*.ini": "hexEditor.hexedit"
},
By default, the data inspector is shown just to the right of the data grid (or decoded text if enabled), but it can be configured (via the hexeditor.inspectorType
setting) to instead show up while hovering over a data cell.
Another option is to give the data inspector a dedicated activity bar entry on the left (by setting hexeditor.inspectorType
to sidebar
) that appears when the hex editor is opened, causing the explorer or whatever sidebar you had opened to be hidden. If preferred, the hex editor view can be dragged into another view by dragging the ⬡ icon onto one of the other views. This can be used in combination with the hexeditor.dataInspector.autoReveal
setting to avoid revealing the sidebar containing the data inspector altogether.
To track existing issues or report a new one, please visit the GitHub Issues page at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-hexeditor/issues