HYX(1)

👑 HYX(1) — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, gather round, because hyx is about to become your whole personality 💖 it's a terminal hex editor, it lives in section 1 of the manual, and it's genuinely iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

hyx — a minimalistic but powerful terminal hex editor 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hyx [filename]
command | hyx

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So like, hyx is a minimalistic (< 2300 lines of C, no cap, she's tiny) vim-like hex editor. 💀 She's small but she does NOT play.

Here's the vibe check on what she can do:

• display ASCII with colors 🌈
• insert/replace/delete
• copy/paste
• undo/redo
• search

That's the whole personality and honestly? Ate. 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — shows you the help text with the editor keys and commands, like a little bestie handing you the cheat sheet 🫶
• -v, --version — shows the version of the program, so you can be like "which era of hyx am I in" ⭐

✨ KEYS ✨

these are your main character moves, memorize them iykyk 💜

• q — quit
• h, j, k, l — move cursor
• (hex digits) — edit bytes (in hex mode)
• (printable) — edit bytes (in ascii mode)
• i — switch between replace and insert modes
• tab — switch between hex and ascii input
• u — undo
• ctrl+r — redo
• v — start a selection
• escape — abort a selection
• x — delete current byte or selection
• s — substitute current byte or selection
• y — copy current byte or selection to clipboard
• p — paste
• P — paste and move cursor
• ], [ — increase/decrease number of columns
• ctrl+u, ctrl+d — scroll up/down one page
• g, G — jump to start/end of screen or file
• ^, $ — jump to start/end of current line
• : — enter command (see below, bestie, keep reading 👇)
• /x (hex string) — search for hexadecimal bytes
• /s (characters) — search for unicode string (utf8)
• /w (characters) — search for unicode string (ucs2)
• n, N — jump to next/previous match
• ctrl+a, ctrl+x — increment/decrement current byte
• ctrl+g — show file name and current position
• ctrl+z — suspend editor; use "fg" to continue

💀 not the ctrl+z suspend catching you off guard. just type "fg" and you're back, breathe.

🦋 COMMANDS 🦋

type : first, then one of these queens 👑

• $offset — jump to offset (supports hex/dec/oct, so she's flexible fr fr)
• q — quit
• w [$filename] — save
• wq [$filename] — save and quit
• color y/n — toggle colors

and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, periodt 💖✨

this was the hyx page from the General Commands Manual, dated 30 Jan 2022, and yes the footer said HYX(1) again because she's consistent like that. mwah. 🎀🫶