# Install hexapoda with Homebrew

Colorful modal hex editor. Version 1.0.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-03.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:hexapoda
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hexapoda
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:hexapoda
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Source summary:** Colorful modal hex editor
- **Homepage:** <https://simonomi.dev/hexapoda>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/simonomi/hexapoda>
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03T16:07:56Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- hexapoda (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.0.0
## Project history and usage

hexapoda is a colorful modal hex editor written in Rust and documented through its project website.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in March 2026 and describes hexapoda as a colorful modal hex editor. The README explains that the name comes from the Hexapoda subphylum and points to the website for fuller documentation.

### Adoption history

The install page recommends Homebrew and also documents Cargo, cargo-binstall, and manually downloaded release binaries. The Homebrew formula packages GitHub release archives, while the input package metadata records Homebrew as the package-manager entry for this batch.

### How it is used

hexapoda is a full-screen modal editor for binary files. Its documentation emphasizes color-coding bytes by value and a TOML config file that can remap modal commands, including movement, selection, repeat, goto, replace, and delete actions.

### Why package nerds care

hexapoda is a compact example of the newer Rust terminal-editor wave: modal editing ideas applied to binary data, shipped with a project website, generated schema-backed configuration, release binaries, and Homebrew/Cargo installation routes.

### Timeline

- 2026-03: GitHub repository created.
- 2026-05: 0.2.x releases published on GitHub.
- 2026-06: v0.2.4 release published and packaged by Homebrew.

### Related projects

- hexapoda sits closer to interactive hex editors such as hexedit and hexcurse than to one-shot dumpers such as hexdump, xxd, hx, or hexd.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/simonomi/hexapoda/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hexapoda>
- <https://github.com/simonomi/hexapoda>
- <https://simonomi.dev/hexapoda>
- <https://simonomi.dev/hexapoda/config>
- <https://simonomi.dev/hexapoda/install>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for hexapoda. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hexapoda.toml, ~/.config/hexapoda.toml
- Windows: %APPDATA%\hexapoda.toml

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hexapoda.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/hexapoda.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph