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Wordwrap can cause the ansi art to be badly distorted. This is especially the case in small terminals like Termux.

On reddit, a user named romkatv came up with a solution. https://www.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/12ueb6b/comment/jhmlgez/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Disable wordwrap before printing the art and then reenable it after.

print -n '\e[?7l' # turn off automatic margins (a.k.a. line wrapping)
iconv -f 437 < $ansi_filename
print -n '\e[?7h' # restore automatic margins

I'd have submitted this as a PR, but I didn't write the original code.

From https://www.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/12ueb6b/comment/jhbzhuf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I had some issues using your ansi_art_download command. I'm installing this on Termux by the way, if that matters. It downloaded all of the zip files, but it put them in //.config/ansimotd/ instead of ~/.config/ansimotd/ Then when it tried to extract the files, it ran into problems. I got an error like this for each archive.

checkdir: cannot create extraction directory: ~/.config/ansimotd/artscene.textfiles.com/artpacks/1996/spl9607 No such file or directory

Edit: whatever directory I start in, it creates a directory named ~ and acts like that's my home directory. Maybe using $HOME would be better.

I'd like to add this to awesome-zsh-plugins, but it doesn't have a license file.

Please add a license file - if you don't have one in mind, I recommend using choosealicense.com to help choose an appropriate one.

Thanks!

There is a typo at:

Between level= and 1 shouldn't be a blank character or the wget command doesn't work.

Otherwise, great stuff!

A lot of the ANSI art is great, but some of it is garbage. It would be nice if there were a command that could delete the last loaded MOTD so it won't show up anymore. Or maybe just export the selected MOTD to an environment variable so that people can choose what to do with it themselves like edit it or whatever.