Functionality to make writing hex easier.

[Emarcee-Q-Em]

This program immediately seems more flexible than HxD, but there are some features I'd like to see -- especially for those encoding in languages besides ASCII.

• The ability to paste-write (as opposed to insert) custom-encoded text (such as when you want to safely overwrite Japanese text in a file).
• The ability to make a hotkey for copying as custom encoding, or better yet -- make cntrl+C contextual to the encoding you highlighted (e.g. if you highlight from one custom encoding, cntrl+C would copy from that, but if you highlighted the hex, cntrl+C would copy from that).

[WerWolv]

Hey! I added a shortcut to the Copy as -> Custom Encoding option now. It's SHIFT + ALT + C by default but can be changed in the settings. (f96c51e)

The ability to modify strings in general in the custom encoding column will require much more effort though. The issue is, a lot of encodings are variable length so modifying a character might need to use up more or less bytes than the previous one. Besides, some encodings we currently have use multi-character values to represent single characters (for example old games often used control codes in their text and many are represented as strings like <COLOR BLUE>) which leads to ambiguities. I'm happy to accept PRs but it's unlikely that I'll work on this feature myself for now.

[Emarcee-Q-Em]

Oh wow! That was really fast!

What do I do to access this feature? Do I get some different build, or do I import this patch somehow?

[WerWolv]

You can either wait for the next full release or download of the the nightly builds from https://imhex.werwolv.net. You can find them all the way at the bottom