Bless Hex Editor

Hex Editor:

A hex editor or binary file editor or byte editor is a program which allows the users to manipulate binary data which as a whole constitutes to a computer file. The name 'hex' comes from the 'hexadecimal'( A numerical system consisting of 16 fundamental digits).

Bless Hex Editor:

Bless Hex Editor is one such hex editor for ubuntu. It is written in mono/Gtk# and its primary platform is GNU/Linux. However it should be able to run without problems on every platform that mono and Gtk# run. Bless Hex Editor, in addition to all features that a hex editor must have like editing files as a sequence of bytes, allowing read/write, also offers many other features such as search, pattern finding, efficient query-replace, multi-tabbing, customized data-views, plugins etc.

Bless currently provides the following features:

• Efficient editing of large data files and block devices.
• Multilevel undo - redo operations.
• Customizable data views.
• Fast data rendering on screen.
• Multiple tabs.
• Fast find and replace operations.
• A data conversion table.
• Advanced copy/paste capabilities.
• Highlighting of selection pattern matches in the file.
• Plugin based architecture.
• Export of data to text and html (others with plugins).
• Bitwise operations on data.
• A comprehensive user manual.

System Requirements for Bless Hex Editor:

• Mono runtime (version 1.1.14 or higher)
  
• Gtk#2 (version 2.8 or higher)

Both mono runtime, and Gtk# can be downloaded from Mono-Project site or from Ubuntu Software Center or also from terminal by running command, "sudo apt-get install mono-runtime"