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Libcaca vs textview

A side-by-side look at Libcaca and textview. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Libcaca

Libcaca

Graphics & Images

Libcaca is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, allowing images, video and GUI apps to be shown in text mode. It supports various text mode graphics formats and can be used as an alternative to graphical toolkits.

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textview

textview

Office & Productivity

Textview is a simple, open-source text editor for Linux. It has basic editing features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, and search/replace. It aims to provide a fast, lightweight text editing experience without unnecessary bells and whistles.

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