Sally

Features

See inside a file without opening an application

F3 opens the focused file in the viewer that fits it. Alt+F3 uses the alternate viewer, and Ctrl+Shift+F3 lets you choose.

Sally's internal text viewer showing a text file with Cyrillic and Greek text
The internal viewer decoding Unicode text.

Internal viewer: text and hex

The internal viewer shows any file as text or as hex. Text files with a UTF-8 or UTF-16 byte-order mark open decoded, and F8 cycles through code pages for older files. F4 or Ctrl+H switches to hex, which always shows the raw bytes.

  • Find text forward and backward (F7, then F3 for the next match), with regular expressions or as hex byte sequences.
  • Select with the mouse or keyboard and copy to the clipboard or to a new file.
  • Wrap long lines, go to an offset, view full screen.
  • Step to the previous or next file of the panel, or of the Find results, without closing the viewer.

Web Viewer: HTML, Markdown, SVG

The Web Viewer uses Microsoft Edge WebView2 to render HTML, XML, SVG and images. Markdown files render with GitHub-style formatting and their images, so a README.md looks the way it does on GitHub.

Specialist viewers

ViewerShows
PE ViewerEXE and DLL files: machine type, headers, imports, exports, resources, debug information
Database ViewerdBase and FoxPro DBF, CSV and tab-delimited files, with search and bookmarks
Multimedia ViewerMP3 ID3 tags, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WAV and tracker module information
UnISOCD and DVD image properties
File ComparatorTwo files side by side with the differences highlighted, down to the character

Viewers and editors are chosen by file mask under Options › Configuration › Viewers and Editors, so you can also send a type to any external program.