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

durdraw 0.29.0                                    February 2025                                       DURDRAW(1)