draw

draw is a small terminal canvas. It opens an alternate screen, tracks mouse input, and renders drawings as ASCII characters with optional ANSI color.

Install

go install github.com/jmcntsh/draw@latest

Run it with:

draw

If your Go bin directory is not on your PATH, add it first:

export PATH="$(go env GOPATH)/bin:$PATH"

Controls

• Drag with the left mouse button to use the current tool.
• Right-click drag to erase.
• Press b, e, l, r, o, f, or v to choose brush, eraser, line, rectangle, ellipse, fill, or selection.
• Press - for a smaller brush and + for a bigger brush. The footer shows this as brush 1 (+/- change size).
• Press x to choose the drawing character.
• Press tab to cycle colors, or press 1 through 6 to pick a color directly. The first palette color is black.
• Press h to enter a custom hex color, such as #ff8800.
• Press u to undo and ctrl+r to redo.
• Press c to clear.
• Press s to save the canvas. Enter a custom name, or leave it blank to use a timestamp.
• Press q, esc, or ctrl+c to quit.

Saved drawings are written to the drawings/ directory:

• <name>.draw.json is the editable native file.
• <name>.ansi.txt is the colored terminal view.
• <name>.txt is plain ASCII.

Viewing Drawings

List saved drawings:

draw list

Print a saved drawing:

draw open my-drawing

Edit a saved drawing:

draw edit my-drawing

Start with a specific canvas size:

draw --size 80x24

Export a saved drawing:

draw export my-drawing --format svg
draw export my-drawing --format ansi
draw export my-drawing --format txt