Vigilant Cupcake

How to get it

Run Setup.exe from here to have it install the self-updating executable

What is it?

Vigilant Cupcake is a tool to manage your hosts file.

Features

Combine multiple "fragments" to produce your hosts file
Sync fragments with remote URLs
Download and save files while running in the background
Intelligent searching of fragments
Import collections of fragments
Automatically identify conflicts
Filter the hosts file to exclude entries you don't want
Self updating executable

Usage

The fragment list on the left is a collection of all the possible hosts file fragments you can use.

Go to File > New to create a new fragment.

Select a row to view it.

While viewing a row, you can add a Remote URL where the fragment will always sync from. If you do this, you will not be able to edit the fragment manually.

Double click or right click an existing row to rename it.

Check the box to make the fragment active.

Right click a row and select delete to delete the fragment.

If you enable "New Hosts Analysis" from the options menu, filtering and conflict identification will be enabled.

Filter the new hosts file by entering a regular expression into the "Exclude:" text box.

Importing

Currently you can import a set of fragments by right clicking an empty folder and selecting Import Remote Fragments.

The format is one URL per line.

The "Open File" dialog can read from a local file or remote URL.

Hotkeys

The file windows support the following hotkeys: Main tools:

Ctrl+N - create a new fragment
Ctrl+S - save and flush DNS
Ctrl+D - flush dns
Ctrl+O - show current hosts file

In fragment editors:

Left, Right, Up, Down, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown - moves caret
Shift+(Left, Right, Up, Down, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown) - moves caret with selection
Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H - shows Find and Replace dialogs
F3 - find next
Ctrl+G - shows GoTo dialog
Ctrl+(C, V, X) - standard clipboard operations
Ctrl+A - selects all text
Ctrl+Z, Alt+Backspace, Ctrl+R - Undo/Redo opertions
Tab, Shift+Tab - increase/decrease left indent of selected range
Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End - go to first/last char of the text
Shift+Ctrl+Home, Shift+Ctrl+End - go to first/last char of the text with selection
Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Right - go word left/right
Shift+Ctrl+Left, Shift+Ctrl+Right - go word left/right with selection
Ctrl+-, Shift+Ctrl+- - backward/forward navigation
Ctrl+U, Shift+Ctrl+U - converts selected text to upper/lower case
Ctrl+Shift+C - inserts/removes comment prefix in selected lines
Ins - switches between Insert Mode and Overwrite Mode
Ctrl+Backspace, Ctrl+Del - remove word left/right
Alt+Mouse, Alt+Shift+(Up, Down, Right, Left) - enables column selection mode
Alt+Up, Alt+Down - moves selected lines up/down
Shift+Del - removes current line
Ctrl+B, Ctrl+Shift-B, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+Shift+N - add, removes and navigates to bookmark
Esc - closes all opened tooltips, menus and hints
Ctrl+Wheel - zooming
Ctrl+M, Ctrl+E - start/stop macro recording, executing of macro
Alt+F [char] - finds nearest [char]
Ctrl+(Up, Down) - scrolls Up/Down
Ctrl+(NumpadPlus, NumpadMinus, 0) - zoom in, zoom out, no zoom
Ctrl+I - forced AutoIndentChars of current line

Requirements

.NET 4.6 runtime

Coming Soonish

OSX and Linux support via Mono or .NET Core

Libraries

Created by Adam Weiss and Matt Gaczewski

Logo created by Todd Burnett

Domain donated by Tim Finucane

Name donated by Greg Houston