Boxes is a command line program which draws, removes, and repairs
ASCII art boxes.
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Elasticity
The boxes adjust to match the size of your content
Creativity
Create and share your own box designs
What's New
Mar 3, 2023
The list of box designs on this website was improved.
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Dec 16, 2022
Boxes integration for Emacs is now available as an Emacs package!
Mar 3, 2023
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More About Boxes
Boxes is a command line program which draws, removes, and repairs ASCII art boxes. It operates as a text filter. The generated boxes may even be removed and repaired again if they were 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.
Boxes is useful for making the function headers in your programming language look better, for spicing up news postings and emails, or just for decorating documentation files. Since the drawn box is matched in size to your input text, you can use boxes in scripts to dynamically add boxes around stuff.
Boxes integrates into your text editor (learn how).
Boxes can be configured via command line options, so that your text looks just right in its new surrounding box. You can even configure regular expressions to change the text when a box is added or removed.
New box designs of all sorts can easily be added and shared by appending to a free format configuration file. Be creative!
Boxes is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3).