vardyh/tweak

My fork of Simon Tatham's Tweak: an efficient hex editor.

tweak

Tweak is a curses-based hex editor created by Simon Tatham (also the creator of the famous PuTTY). This repository is a mirror with some minor changes.

Instructions tested on Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion)

How to Install

$ git clone https://github.com/mborgerson/tweak.git
$ make
$ sudo make install

Note: The default binary installation path is /usr/local/bin/tweak and the man installation path is /usr/local/man/man1/tweak.1. You may need to add /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man to your PATH and MANPATH environment variables, respectively.

How to Use

Full documentation is available in the manpage (or on Simon's website):

$ man tweak

Launch Tweak by simply specifying the name of the file (either an existing file or the name of the file to be created) as the first argument.

$ tweak <file>

Here are the basic commands to get you started (mostly Emacs standard):

• Arrow keys to move around (or usual Emacs movement keys)
• [C-x c-c] to exit
• [c-x c-i] to toggle between insert/replace mode
• [c-x c-s] to save
• [C-x g] to go to a byte offset in the file
• [Enter] to toggle between hex and ascii