hx
Hex editor for the terminal using plain C99 + POSIX libs. (by krpors)
smenu
smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use. (by p-gen)
| hx | smenu | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 37 | |
| 196 | 2,379 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.8 | 7.9 | |
| 6 months ago | 23 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hx
Posts with mentions or reviews of hx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-28.
- hx: Hex editor for the terminal using plain C99 + POSIX libs
- Project Was Stolen
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What's a small Linux program that you don't give much thought but makes your life a hundred times easier from time to time?
hx a vim-like hex editor in your terminal. It's amazing, and i use it all the time.
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My favorite cli/tui programs:
hx - hex editor
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100k members! To celebrate, what is your favorite piece of C code you have written?
My Hex editor 'hx' . It started as a learning project but actually grew into something useful :D
smenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of smenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.
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Lineselect 0.1.6
You can also use smenu (https://github.com/p-gen/smenu) to make these and many other selections.
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smenu clean window effect
Here are the relevant bits of the source (in [smenu.c](https://github.com/p-gen/smenu/blob/master/smenu.c):
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So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
Here are the bindings for smenu-history, I found somewhere at the site:
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I created a full POSIX sh menu.
I suggest a name change, so your smenu, isn't confused with this smenu, which is a totally different entity, can present the menus in columns, lines and tabular fashion, has hotkey support, and so much more, I don't know if it is POSIX compliant, but it can also be used with sh, and just not bash.
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Recommendations for CLI / terminal utilities for dialog or confirmation prompts?
smenu for menu and dialogs
- smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool/filter for interactive or scripting use.
- smenu v1.2.0 is released.
- smenu v1.2.0 is available with improvements in the multiple selections feature.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hx and smenu you can also consider the following projects:
Vim - The official Vim repository
RAGENativeUI
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
kks - Handy Kakoune companion.
pg_hexedit - Open PostgreSQL relation files in a hex editor with tags and annotations
sn - Simple Notes using fzf
tmux - tmux source code
notes - notes on the tools in my Unix/Linux toolbox, dotfiles, etc
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
cleanit - Cleanit cleanup your ~/Downloads and ~/.Trash directory, and set the cleanup schedule on your MacOS.
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
tickrs - Realtime ticker data in your terminal 📈