The following table summarizes the keystrokes and corresponding menu items for binary editor commands:
Keystrokes | Menu | Action |
Up | Move the caret 16 bytes back. | |
Down | Move the caret 16 bytes forward. | |
Left | Move the caret one byte back. | |
Right | Move the caret one byte forward. | |
Home | Move the caret to the start of the current line of bytes. | |
End | Move the caret to the end of the current line of bytes. | |
Page Up | Move the caret one page up. | |
Page Down | Move the caret one page down. | |
Ctrl+Home | Move the caret to address 0. | |
Ctrl+End | Move the caret to the address of the last byte in the file. | |
Ctrl+Up | Move the view up one line. | |
Down | Move the view down one line. | |
Ctrl+Left | Move the caret 4 bytes back. | |
Ctrl+Right | Move the caret 4 bytes forward. | |
Ctrl+F | Edit | Find | Display the find dialog. |
F3 | Find the next occurrence of the value most recently searched for. | |
Backspace | Removes the byte in the address before the caret position. | |
Delete | Removes the currently selected byte. | |
Ctrl+S | File | Save | Save the current file. |
File | Save As | Save the current file under a different file name. WARNING the current version of the binary editor continues to display the original file name after a "Save as" operation. | |
Ctrl+Z | Edit | Undo | Undoes the last operation. |
Ctrl+Y | Edit | Redo | Redoes the last undone operation. |
Insert | Enable or disable overwrite mode. | |
Ctrl+T | When in text input mode the currently selected byte will be replaced with the ASCII character code for the input key. e.g. 0F would become 66 when ‘f’ is pressed. When not in text input mode the currently selected byte is replaced with the HEX value of the input keys. e.g. 00 would become 0F when ‘f’ is pressed. 00 would become FA if the 'f' then 'a' keys were pressed. | |
Edit | Advanced | Toggle Read Only | Toggle the write permissions of the current file. | |
Ctrl+E | Allows the file to be a fixed size or a variable size | |
Down or Right | Extends the file when the last address is selected and the file is write enabled. the new bytes will be initialised to 00. |