DURDRAW(1)

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version 0.29.0 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 DURDRAW(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the durdraw manual page — the user commands era, the ASCII art era, the main character era ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

durdraw — a 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. literally so much going on and it ate 💅

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. it's giving vintage glow-up, no cap 👑

🎀 positional arguments:

  • filename — the .dur or ascii file to load 🫶

💜 options:

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit (the classic escape hatch, we love her)
  • -p PLAY [PLAY ...], --play PLAY [PLAY ...] — just play .dur file or files, then exit. cinema mode fr fr 🎬
  • --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. choose your fighter 😭
  • -V, --version — show version number and exit
lowkey important: -x TIMES / --times TIMES only works if you also pass -p. and --cp437 is beta, so go in with a CP437-capable terminal and font or it's not gonna vibe check correctly 🫠

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

durfetch, durview — the rest of the squad 🫶✨

👑 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

and that's the whole page bestie, you're officially durdraw-pilled 🎀 this was durdraw 0.29.0, dated February 2025 — periodt 💅💖

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