app-editors
app-editors / fte : Lightweight text-mode editor
app-editors / nano : GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality
app-misc
app-misc / mc : GNU Midnight Commander is a text based file manager
- Use sys-libs/slang instead of sys-libs/ncurses.
dev-util
dev-util / perf : Userland tools for Linux Performance Counters
mail-client
mail-client / mutt : A small but very powerful text-based mail client
mail-client / neomutt : A small but very powerful text-based mail client
media-libs
media-libs / aalib : A ASCII-Graphics Library
media-libs / libcaca : A library that creates colored ASCII-art graphics
media-sound
media-sound / timidity++ : A handy MIDI to WAV converter with OSS and ALSA output support
net-analyzer
net-analyzer / trafshow : Full screen visualization of the network traffic
sci-libs
sci-libs / gaul-devel : Genetic Algorithm Utility Library
sys-apps
sys-apps / util-linux : Various useful Linux utilities