JavE -free Ascii Editor

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JavE is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters.
It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images.

Use your mouse to draw texts!

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JavE is written in 100% pure Java and so should run on almost every operating system.
It is a standalone application and not available as applet.