Hex Editor with Colors

Fork of Microsoft Hex Editor VS Code extension, with colors.

Changes

• Reduce decoded text cell width (fixes #566, PR)
• Add "Open in Hex Editor" command (PR)
• Remove telemetry
• Add rendering styles: colors for both bytes and decoded text, and glyphs for decoded text (fixes #567, PR)

New settings

Color scheme

• hexeditor.style.byteColorScheme: Color style for bytes
• hexeditor.style.decodedTextColorScheme: Color style for decoded text

Values:

• default: Default monochrome (mimics original extension)
• rainbow and rainbowLight: Color choosen by high nibble
• categories and categoriesLight: Color choosen by category (non-printable ASCII, printable ASCII, non-ASCII)
• gradient: Color gradients

Character tables

• hexeditor.style.nonPrintableAsciiCharacter: Rendering style for non-printable ASCII within the decoded text
• hexeditor.style.printableAsciiCharacter: Rendering style for printable ASCII within the decoded text
• hexeditor.style.nonAsciiCharacter: Rendering style for non-ASCII within the decoded text

Values:

• dot: Renders a regular dot
• middot: Renders a middle dot (lighter than a regular dot)
• bullet: Renders a bullet
• cross: Renders a cross (a multiplication sign)
• symbol: Renders a glyph that represents the control code
• ascii: Renders the actual ASCII character
• braille: Renders a braille glyph based on the byte value

Table:

* Particularly relevant characters (NUL 0x00, TAB 0x09, LF 0x0A, CR 0x0D, whitepace 0x20, and DEL 0x7F) will use their own glyphs

Credits

• Original Hex Editor VS Code extension Copyright © Microsoft Corporation
• Rainbow palettes inspired by "your hex editor should color-code bytes" blogpost by simonomi
• Color gradients, and braille glyph rendering, both inspired by this contribution by aticu to hexyl