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| DURDRAW(1) | User Commands | DURDRAW(1) |
NAME¶
durdraw - versatile ASCII and ANSI Art text editor for drawing in terminal
SYNOPSIS¶
durdraw [-h] [-p PLAY [PLAY ...]] [--startup | -w | -x TIMES] [--256color | --16color] [-b] [-W WIDTH] [-H HEIGHT] [-m] [--nomouse] [--cursor CURSOR] [--notheme] [--theme THEME] [--cp437] [--export-ansi] [-u UNDOSIZE] [-V] [filename]
DESCRIPTION¶
Durdraw is an ASCII, ANSI and Unicode art editor for UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc). It runs in modern Utf-8 terminals and supports frame-based animation, custom themes, 256 and 16 color modes, terminal mouse input, DOS ANSI art viewing, CP437 and Unicode mixing and conversion, HTML output, mIRC color output, and other interesting features.
Durdraw is heavily inspired by classic ANSI editing software for MS-DOS and Windows, such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw, but with a modern Unix twist.
positional arguments:¶
- filename
- .dur or ascii file to load
options:¶
- -h, --help
- show this help message and exit
- -p PLAY [PLAY ...], --play PLAY [PLAY ...]
- Just play .dur file or files, then exit
- --startup
- Show startup screen
- -w, --wait
- Pause at startup screen
- -x TIMES, --times TIMES
- Play X number of times (requires -p)
- --256color
- Try 256 color mode
- --16color
- Try 16 color mode
- -b, --blackbg
- Use a black background color instead of terminal default
- -W WIDTH, --width WIDTH
- Set canvas width
- -H HEIGHT, --height HEIGHT
- Set canvas height
- -m, --max
- Maximum canvas size for terminal (overrides -W and -H)
- --nomouse
- Disable mouse support
- --cursor CURSOR
- Cursor mode (block, underscore, or pipe)
- --notheme
- Disable theme support (use default theme)
- --theme THEME
- Load a custom theme file
- --cp437
- Display extended characters on the screen using Code Page 437 (IBM-PC/MS-DOS) encoding instead of Utf-8. (Requires CP437 capable terminal and font) (beta)
- --export-ansi
- Export loaded art to an .ansi file and exit
- -u UNDOSIZE, --undosize UNDOSIZE
- Set the number of undo history states - default is 100. More requires more RAM, less saves RAM.
- -V, --version
- Show version number and exit
SEE ALSO¶
durfetch, durview
AUTHOR¶
Durdraw is primarily written by Sam Foster <samfoster@gmail.com>. For a full list of contributors, please see the Github page: https://github.com/cmang/durdraw
| February 2025 | durdraw 0.29.0 |