I have no place to run, I must create or find or cobble this item.

Key must haves:

• ability to switch insert/cursor mode, and move left right up down directions by hitting alt+[↑↓→←] arrow keys or some similar combo
• dirt simple interface for keymapping, allow ext support later.
• fun have, ability to repath the string flow from left to right, up to down to literally any pattern that does not leave the grid un-covered. it can be scatter plotted so it can be even a pad to use with friends...in any case it would still return a standard, line breaked, left to right, top down binary text file.

This premise paired with key mapping "palettes" would make a quite robust ASCII editor a la a pixel editor, which mode could be made, assuming the canvas is WxH chars of spaces, or optionally the ASCII whitespace character.

This leans toward an image to ASCII feature later on. hmm.