InDieTasten/ANSI-mate

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A CLI tool with mouse support for drawing ascii art and animations

Stars: 2
Forks: 1
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 59

Dominant language: Lua
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Feb 8, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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59 open issues indexed

Text tool for simply typing some characters to the canvas Open

enhancement

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#125 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Flipping selection Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#123 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Mirroring Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#122 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
GIF export Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#121 · Opened Feb 12, 2026
Webhost based player Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#120 · Opened Feb 12, 2026
Bash based animation player Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#119 · Opened Feb 12, 2026
ANSI art gallery service Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#118 · Opened Feb 12, 2026
Show cursor position on canvas using crosshair Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#115 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Export feature to output the combined layers into single output file Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#114 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Design and implement a persistence scheme for ANSI-mate projects Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#113 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
More advanced persistence scheme Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#112 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Warning when discarding unsaved changes on quit Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#111 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Add keyboard based char selection Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#110 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Add proper pencil Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#109 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Overhaul UI layouting implementation Open

enhancement tech debt

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#108 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Functional approach to extract tool implementations from main lua module Open

enhancement tech debt

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#107 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Reduce amount of magical integers in code, like tool ids and mouse button ids Open

enhancement good first issue tech debt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#106 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Diff based frame interpolation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#105 · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Host Debian packages in an APT repo Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#99 · Opened Feb 21, 2025
Create a debian package for releases Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#98 · Opened Feb 21, 2025
Add half block drawing mode Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#97 · Opened Dec 15, 2024
Add color support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#90 · Opened Oct 28, 2024
Publish as LuaRocks rock 🪨 Open

tech debt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#82 · Opened Oct 24, 2024
Palette not usable with low terminal height Open

bug

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#81 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 24, 2024
Browser demo in xterm.js Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#79 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Add pipette tool Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#78 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Add circular dither gradient tool Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#77 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Add linear dither gradient tool Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#76 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Add fill option to circle tool Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#75 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Add fill option to rectangle tool Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#74 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Add line tool Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#73 · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Display hint when terminal size is too small for ASCII-mate TUI Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#69 · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Add more handles for resizing canvas from different corners Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#68 · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Show cursor coordinates on canvas in status bar Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#67 · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Show current resizing dimensions in status bar Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#66 · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Show unsaved changes status in status bar Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#65 · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Show file name in status bar Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#64 · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Add status bar Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#63 · Opened Oct 20, 2024
Scrolling is not clamped Open

bug good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#60 · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Performance waste for rerendering unchanged display state Open

tech debt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#57 · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Performance waste for mouse events Open

tech debt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#56 · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Add e2e TUI testing Open

enhancement tech debt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#55 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Add test coverage reporting to PR validation using luacov from LuaRocks Open

enhancement tech debt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#54 · Opened Oct 18, 2024
Add ability to "save as" and use as default behavior for when no file name was specified during launch Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#48 · Opened Oct 16, 2024
Add Figlet tool to insert ascii figlet / fig font text into the canvas Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#39 · Opened Oct 15, 2024
README prerequisites don't link to places where they can be retrieved Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 62/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#33 · Opened Oct 14, 2024
Term module has no test coverage Open

good first issue tech debt

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#32 · Opened Oct 13, 2024
README is outdated Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#31 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2024
Replace loose dependency on /bin/stty with properly linked library that supports Linux, Windows, MacOS Open

tech debt

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#26 · Opened Oct 13, 2024
Add release workflow for constructing self-contained binaries of ASCII-mate for distribution Open

good first issue tech debt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

InDieTasten/ANSI-mate#25 · Opened Oct 13, 2024

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