/draw

Draw in your terminal

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Draw

draw is an simple drawing tool in the terminal. Hold your mouse down and move it across the screen to draw anything you want!

Draw

Installation

go install github.com/maaslalani/draw@latest

Usage

draw

Boxes

Draw boxes by clicking and dragging the right mouse button, releasing the right mouse button will draw the box.

Voila! You have a box drawn where you want it.

Draw Boxes

Text Insertion

Tap the right mouse button to set an anchor for inserting text and type away! Press ESC to exit insert mode.

Insert Text

Saving Drawings

draw automatically saves your latest masterpiece to /tmp/draw.txt by default. You can change this location by setting the environment variable $DRAW_FILE.

export DRAW_FILE=/path/to/draw.txt

To view this drawing use cat or mv the drawing to somewhere more permanent. If you already know you want to save the drawing, run draw with the file path where you want to save the drawing: draw masterpiece.txt.

Controls

  • ctrl+c to exit.
  • Press any key to draw with that character.
  • Press 1 for red.
  • Press 2 for green.
  • Press 3 for yellow.
  • Press 4 for blue.
  • Press 5 for magenta.
  • Press 6 for cyan.
  • Press 7 for gray.