NULL mag Issue 06 13 Moebius, ansi editor

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 · 3 years ago

  

 

 
    moebius is a new ansi editor, that caught me by surprise. not because 
    i haven't heard anything about the project, but because it has many 
    features that other ansi editors don't and that does stuff the "right 
    way". 

    i am not going to write all features or bugs of moebius, but only 
    those that "surprised" me and made an impression by their 
    implementation or absence. by any means, this article is not 
    against/con moebius, but rather a slight "push" to the right 
    direction, to even be a better ansi editor, cause finally, i saw 
    things implemented, that should have, in other editors, years now... 

    what i liked... 

    # finally an ansi editor, included a help file for its key shortcuts, 
      that you can reference at. 
    # the numpad feature is also a nice idea. 
    # too many fonts to work with, nice. 
    # many of the key shortcuts are "classic" 
    # the thing that every tool can use half/full block chars. or colorize 
      mode etc. is very nice 
    # that reference image stuff, is way too cool!!! 
    # shift key, while drawing erases stuff!!! nice... 

 
    what i didn't like... or it's missing... 

    # the crosshair cursor is very hard to see. it's very tiring for the 
      eyes to work. 
    # copy/paste, even between two open instances of moebius doesn't work 
      too well 
    # no thedraw font, support... 
    # in linux, i couldn't load, ansi files, with many lines. something 
      clogs up and it shows about 25-30 lines. 
    # i don't like the thing that the characters, in top of the screen, 
      change to the selected color, cause if you chose some dark colors, 
      are hard to see them. i don't mind for the chars to be always in 
      light gray. 
    # the transparency in the tools, while selecting/drawing stuff, is 
      very helpful, as you can see what is under. 
    # if you have turned off ICE colors, you can still select light colors 
      for the background, which mixes things up. to avoid mistakes while 
      drawing, it should not let you select light colors as the background 
      color, when this option is turned off. 
    # i think a statusbar with some help text, specially when making a 
      selection, would be nice. 

 
    overall, i think that moebius is the continuation of pablo, which 
    hasn't been updated for some time now. it has more functions and i 
    find it more usable than pablo. still needs some fixes and features to 
    be the best ansi editor, but right now, i can erase pablo from disk :p 
    cause moebius took a place on it. 

    you can get moebius in this links: 
    :: https://github.com/blocktronics/moebius 
    :: http://www.andyh.org/moebius/