boxes - brief description

ASCII Box Drawing - the `boxes` filter program

                                      /*********************/ 
         boxes draws any              /* boxes draws any   */
         kind of boxes        ===>    /* kind of boxes     */
         around your text!            /* around your text! */
                                      /*********************/

boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. These boxes may also be removed, even if they have been badly damaged by editing of the text inside. Since boxes may be open on any side, boxes can also be used to create regional comments in any programming language. With the help of an editor macro or mapping, damaged boxes can easily be repaired.
This is useful for making the function headers in your programming language look better, for spicing up your news postings and emails, or just for decorating your documentation files.

New box designs of all sorts can easily be added and shared by appending to a free format configuration file. boxes was intended to be used with the vim(1) text editor, but can be tied to any text editor which supports filters.

Some Of The Features

Drawing of ASCII art boxes around input text
Generation of regional comments in any programming language
Freely and conveniently user-configurable boxes
Alignment and positioning of text inside a box
Removal of boxes, even if box is damaged by editing of contained text
A number of preconfigured box designs in example config file
Many useful command line options (such as box size specification etc.)
Regular expression substitutions on input text
(e.g. used for quoting closing comment tags in a C comment box)

Author

boxes is developed by Thomas Jensen <boxes(at)thomasjensen.com> .

boxes is free software. Go and download your copy from the download page!

ASCII Box Drawing - the boxes filter program

Some Of The Features

Author

ASCII Box Drawing - the `boxes` filter program