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-=Text tools by Sven Guckes and Michael Prokop=-

Demonstration of copying and pasteing with keyboard only on a terminal.  No mouse involved.  This is done with screen.

Vim lets you select some text and send it through a command e.g. nl to add line numbers.  Or tr to do rot13.  Discussion of how this can be done in Kate, you have to turn on the textfilter plugin.

Demonstration of figlet which draws large and fancy text on the command line.  There are lots of fancy fonts for figlet.

 |  / __ \  ____|
 ' /  |   | __|
 . \  |   | |
_|\_\____/ _____|


Demonstration of `boxes` which puts fancy ASCII borders around text.  

 / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \
|  /~~\                 /~~\  |
|\ \   |  We like KDE  |   / /|
| \   /|               |\   / |
|  ~~  |               |  ~~  |
|      |               |      |
 \     |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|     /
  \   /                 \   /
   ~~~                   ~~~

Then cowsay which wraps text into a cow.
 ___________
< KDE Rulez >
 -----------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

We discovered that cowsay has lots of cowfiles for other animals.

 ___________
< KDE rulez >
 -----------
 \     /\  ___  /\
  \   // \/   \/ \\
     ((    O O    ))
      \\ /     \ //
       \/  | |  \/
        |  | |  |
        |  | |  |
        |   o   |
        | |   | |
        |m|   |m|

Demonstration of `cal` with colours and dates from `calendar`.  This used cal-4.0.  pcal does postscript things.

`pal` lets you organise your calendar.
He has this in a cron job to be e-mailed to him: pal -d `date +%d`

tpp.rb (text presentation program), a Ruby program, is a command line presentation program.  KPresenter for the console.  It even does animation and fancy changes between slides.  Nico Golde is one of the developers for this package.  It now does colours as well.  This program was made in only a few hours of program which shows how advanced Ruby is.

Example of snownews, an RSS reader for the command line.