ascii editor for linux

I was wondering where I could find a nice ascii editor for linux
that will allow me to make nice lil art for my BitchX scripts
if you could direct me where to fine it would be nice

you can email me at,
anu...@pratorian.net

thank you

> I was wondering where I could find a nice ascii editor for linux
> that will allow me to make nice lil art for my BitchX scripts
> if you could direct me where to fine it would be nice

Pico and Emacs are probably located on your Linux system somewhere.  Both
are suitable for creating standard single-color ASCII art (but not ANSI,
etc).


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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:36:13 -0500, Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net> wrote:
>> I was wondering where I could find a nice ascii editor for linux
>> that will allow me to make nice lil art for my BitchX scripts
>> if you could direct me where to fine it would be nice
>
>Pico and Emacs are probably located on your Linux system somewhere.  Both
>are suitable for creating standard single-color ASCII art (but not ANSI,
>etc).

I find that pico's annoying about wrapping at like col 75, and not
handling long lines. Emacs is, well, too huge to install, I'm running with
limited disk space here. Try xwpe. 

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On 1 Sep 1998 19:34:05 GMT, sti...@mindless.com (sTiLe) wrote:

>On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:36:13 -0500, Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net> wrote:
>>> I was wondering where I could find a nice ascii editor for linux
>>> that will allow me to make nice lil art for my BitchX scripts
>>> if you could direct me where to fine it would be nice
>>
>>Pico and Emacs are probably located on your Linux system somewhere.  Both
>>are suitable for creating standard single-color ASCII art (but not ANSI,
>>etc).
>
>I find that pico's annoying about wrapping at like col 75, and not
>handling long lines. Emacs is, well, too huge to install, I'm running with
>limited disk space here. Try xwpe. 

Or get simple shareware/freeware word processors like Qedit; Galaxy etc
which use fixed fonts as their default. You can locate them by a
simple word search in Web search engines like www.altavista.com and
www.yahoo.com and find a convenient FTP or Web site where you can
download them.

A simple word processor has many more useful features for ascii 
artwork than Notepad and DosEdit, and clunky technical things like 
Emacs or complex wordprocessors like Word and Wordperfect which are
bloated overkill utilities for ascii artwork.

I use PC-Write 2.55 dated 1986 and PC-Write Lite dated later with 
some extra useful features but Quicksoft got financial woes and sold
PC-Write and it is now hard to find. The last version 4.0 was far 
too complex and that's why it failed in the end. The two versions I 
use are "Golden Oldies"...sone programs may be old but they are 
still pure gold and eminently useable even in today's world of 
Pentiums and Windows NT.

Bye,

On 1 Sep 1998, sTiLe wrote:

> I find that pico's annoying about wrapping at like col 75, and not
> handling long lines. 

Not that i want to say that pico is much of an excellent editor, but
for the sake of correctness: starting it with the -w option enables 
editing long lines.

cheers,
Kronome Gergely.

On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Kronome Gergely wrote:

> On 1 Sep 1998, sTiLe wrote:
> 
> > I find that pico's annoying about wrapping at like col 75, and not
> > handling long lines. 
> 
> Not that i want to say that pico is much of an excellent editor, but
> for the sake of correctness: starting it with the -w option enables 
> editing long lines.
> 
> cheers,
> Kronome Gergely.
> 
Hmm. I haven't been able to ever get that working.. *Shrug*
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In article <35E...@pratorian.net>, anubis
<anu...@pratorian.net> writes
>I was wondering where I could find a nice ascii editor for linux
>that will allow me to make nice lil art for my BitchX scripts
>if you could direct me where to fine it would be nice
>
>you can email me at,
>anu...@pratorian.net
>
>thank you
>
[][ hi ...

 erm ... dunno wot 'BitchX' scripts r ?  ... like X-windows ?

 ... otherwise, if for the Linux console, u mite wanna take a look at
 an ANSI editor :-

Title        = Linux ANSI Draw
Version      = 0.0.7a
Desc1        = Linux ANSI package similar to DOS based ANSI packages
Author       = choc
AuthorEmail  = sue...@ozemail.com.au (changing soon)
Site1        = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1        = /incoming
File1        = ansi.0.0.7a.tar.gz
FileSize1    = 8583 bytes
CopyPolicy1  = Copy freely change nothing - this is an alpha release
Keywords     = ansi draw

 ... not sure if its wot yor lookng 4 ?  ... has colour and composite-
 characters that won't display properly here if i posted examples.

 for ASCII i normly use 'vi' or 'emacs'

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
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