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Minimaps make sense as a navigational aid in editors and IDEs, but what is the use case for command line tool that creates static minimap picture?

• imglorp 9y ago
  An editor or IDE could shell out to an arbitrary minimap generator instead of incorporating it inside. Composition of small components, each doing one thing well.
  • HenriNext 9y ago
    This is a command line tool, not a library. It's not feasible to spawn python process 30+ times per second (during scrolling).
    • imglorp 9y ago
      How about once to make a long bitmap image and then the IDE scrolls around in the image?
      • Ivoah 9y ago
        It would still have to regenerate the image every time you type something.
        • fiatjaf 9y ago
          Because you're crazy and is not debouncing?
• Ivoah 9y ago
  There really isn't much use for a tool like this. I mostly made it just to have fun with python and mess around with pygments. One possible use case could be for generating images for a website perhaps? It might be neat to have a minimap of the code of a website as its background.