Hed: The Hexadecimal Editor

Hed is a free hexadecimal editor for POSIX systems designed to efficiently handle infinitely large files in conjunction with operations like inserting in the middle of the file.

Hed is maintained by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> and distributed as free software under GPLv2.

Features

• Very fast on very large files (keeps only necessary portion of the file in memory)
• Fast inserting anywhere in the file
• Fast saving of intermediate changes
• vim-like controls (and exmode)
• Powerful expressions concept for flexible searching and transformation operations on the file or a selected region

Development

Hed is developed using http://git.or.cz/'>Git development version control system. You can get details on how to grab the latest version at http://repo.or.cz/w/hed.git'>its gitweb page (use git clone URL). Click on the snapshot link to get a tarball with the snapshost of the current version.

You are encouraged to send patches to the maintainer. Also, you can freely push to the mob branch of the repository - see http://repo.or.cz/mob.html'>details.

Download

The latest release is http://hed.googlecode.com/files/hed-0.4.tar.gz'>hed-0.4 (2009-02-03).

You can also http://repo.or.cz/w/hed.git/?a=snapshot;h=HEAD'>grab a tarball of the latest development version. See above for the details.

Hed is currently beta-quality software. It should be well usable but not very well tested - and only you can help with that! Please do not use it on critical data without backups, though.