ASCII-mate

A CLI tool with mouse support for drawing ascii art and animations

Prerequisites

• /bin/stty (exists in pretty much all posix systems)
• /bin/sleep (exists in pretty much all posix systems)
• luajit or lua

Usage

git clone git@github.com:InDieTasten/ASCII-mate.git
cd ASCII-mate
lua main.lua

Editing files

Creating or editing a file called cat.ascii:

lua main.lua cat.ascii

Controls

• Q to quit
• Ctrl + S to save

Demo

Resources and references used to create this project

• https://gist.github.com/fnky/458719343aabd01cfb17a3a4f7296797
• https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html

GitHub Codespaces Development

You can use GitHub Codespaces to develop this project. The dev container configuration includes the following preinstalled tools:

• lua
• luajit
• luarocks
• busted

To get started, simply open the repository in a GitHub Codespace.