i don't see enough people with one of the best tool improvements i've ever made for reverse engineering, so i had to write a blog post about it!

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

your hex editor should color-code bytes

@simonomi this is a great idea!

I think I'll make a Vim syntax highlighting file along these lines. Not that I do a lot of hex analysis, but still.

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@simonomi thanks! Can confirm it works great with vanilla gvim, too :)
@simonomi although, it is highlighting eg a301 as a then 30 then 1, rather than a3 and 01. Hm.
@Hyperlynx ah, right... it's specifically designed around how this tool i wrote outputs its hex 😅 it'll need some tweaks to work properly for the formatting you're using https://github.com/simonomi/my_hex_viewer
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@simonomi right, of course 🤦🏻‍♂️. I realised in the shower it's because you use individual bytes, not pairs of bytes. That's fine, I'm sure the thingy I'm using to spit out the hex can be set to do it your way :)

Cheers