X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,18742bfa836e038 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 107393,18742bfa836e038 X-Google-Attributes: gid107393,public From: pgf@american.com (Paul Fox) Subject: Re: Editor for "ASCII-Drawing"? Date: 1996/10/17 Message-ID: <545l2c$d6c@news1.wing.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 190089381 distribution: inet references: <540bk3$dge@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> followup-to: comp.editors,alt.ascii-art organization: American Internet Corporation newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.ascii-art H�vard Fosseng (havardf@usit.uio.no) wrote: : schoeppe@mec.fh-muenchen.de (Joerg Schoeppe) writes: : : > Are there some mappings for vi out in the net? Or something like : > a "drawing" editor? : : C-h f picture-mode : vile comes with a simple picture drawing mode, written in vile's macro language. the biggest problem with it is that you need to start on a blank "canvas" of lines made up of spaces. other than that, you move around with h,j,k,l, and it draws the right lines. diagonals work too, based on u,i,n, and m (based on keyboard layout, nothing else), and you can type other text whenever you want. it's not perfect, but it's as useful as an ascii drawing tool really needs to be these days. hmmm. given the newsgroups line, i'm not sure i should have said that last bit. vile 6.2 available from ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile. paul -- --------------------- paul fox american internet corporation pgf@american.com (home: pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us)