Hexane Hex Editor

Editor features

• Edit files larger than physically available RAM

• Insert, Change, and Delete bytes from files

• Open multiple files concurrently

• Save file (in place or copy)

Import/Export

• Hex Text

• C/C++/Java Code

• HTML

Scripting Support

• Provide a scripting interface

• Provide an interactive scripting shell if possible

Data Inspector

• Allow the user to inspect and edit data in a variety of formats (int, float, etc)

Bookmarks

Find/Replace

Goto

File Compare (diff)

• Allow the user to compare two files for differences

Binary Operations

• Allow the user to do operations on blocks of data, such as ADD, SUB, XOR, etc

Cryptographic Hash Algorithms

• Allow the user to preform various algorithms on data, such as md4, md5, sha-1, sha-256, etc. This would be achieved through use of a library like Botan

Process Editing

• Allow the user to connect to a running process and edit it's memory space

Data Structure definition and mapping support

• Provide a data markup language (possibly like DataScript) for defining data structures, and mapping these structures to the currently loaded file.
  
  

GCC or compatible C/C++ compiler

Scons

GTK+ >= 2.8.0

Gtkmm >= 2.4

VTE - for interactive scripting shell

Swig - for scripting language support

Botan - for crypto algorithms

A scripting language has not been chosen yet. Preferably, the chosen language would be handled by Swig.

Possible candidates are:

• Python

• Ruby

• Squirrel

• Lua

• Ferite

• Pawn

• Other (any suggestions?)