kusumi / fileobj

Ncurses based hex editor with vi interface (upstream)

fileobj (v0.8.6)

About

• Ncurses based hex editor with vi interface.

Supported platforms

• Linux and other Unix-likes

• Windows (experimental, feature limitations)

Requirements

• Python 3.2+

• ncurses (curses Python module)

• C compiler (not required on Windows)

Install

• Run the command below.

    $ sudo python3 -m pip install /path/to/repository
  

• Or run the commands below (recent Python versions will warn as deprecated).

    $ cd /path/to/repository
    $ sudo python3 -m pip install setuptools
    $ sudo python3 ./setup.py install --force --record ./install.out
  

Uninstall

• Run the command below, or remove files listed in install.out from above.

    $ sudo python3 -m pip uninstall -y fileobj
  

Usage

• [paths] are usually regular files or block devices. [paths] can be partially loaded via offset and/or length specification. Run fileobj.py on Windows.

    $ fileobj [options]... [paths]...
    $ fileobj [options]... [paths[@offset:length]]...
    $ fileobj [options]... [paths[@offset-(offset+length)]]...
  

• Run with the following options to test appearance of ncurses.

    $ fileobj --test_screen
    $ fileobj --test_color
  

• Run with the following option to test mouse actions on ncurses.

    $ fileobj --test_mouse
  

Notes

Distributions

List of options

List of environment variables

List of commands

Examples