README.md

A [WIP] pixel art editor inside the terminal.

pxltrm is a terminal pixel art editor written in pure bash. Draw pixel art without a mouse using intuitive hotkeys.

• Fast (Less than 150 lines of pure bash).
• Lightweight (Low on CPU/Memory usage).
• Supports 256 color terminal palette.
• Supports all hex colors (through true-color terminals).
• Undo/Redo of open screens.
• Save/Load screens.
• View saved screens with cat.
• Use any character or string as a brush.
• Responds to window resize.
• Vim hjkl movement.

Note: This is a work in-progress. When you break it, let me know!

Dependencies

• bash 3.2+

Installation

• Move pxltrm somewhere in your $PATH.

TODO

• Export to plain text (chars + whitespace + colors)
• Export to ppm or bpm.
• Manual.

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and my other Open Source projects. If you like pxltrm and
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