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Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool

52 points by lest 15y ago

heretohelp 15y ago
I hate to do this, but "Emacs had it first" Cf. http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html
tcarnell 15y ago
I love it!
bootz15 15y ago
I'm in love.
wenbert 15y ago
This is the missing link. I am very visual and want to explain problems with charts. Pastebin the code + ASCIIFlow will make my life easier. Bookmarking and retweeting. Create an App (Mac OS) for this and this will be one of the most useful productivity apps for developers.
jebberjeb 15y ago
Why didn't I think of that!:)
mikerg87 15y ago
Would pay real $$$ to have this as an add on to Visual Studio. It doesnt seem like we will get embeddable pictures or diagrams for source code so I might as well embrace source crafted from only the finest ASCII... Technically, this is most impressive...
seewhat 15y ago
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177
gulbrandr 15y ago
I hate to do this, but it has already been posted 6 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177
gamebit07 15y ago
go to emacs M-x picture-mode and you do the same. go to emacs M-x artist-mode and you get the same.
Toenex 15y ago
This also http://www.jave.de/ http://www.jave.de/
rpearl 15y ago
vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 emacs (linked in a different comment): http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html
Cieplak 15y ago
What is the best way to approach this obfuscated code: http://www.asciiflow.com/asciiflow/asciiflow.nocache.js http://www.asciiflow.com/asciiflow/asciiflow.nocache.js I feel like there are better deobfuscation tactics than those mentioned here: http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html
avstraliitski 15y ago
Actually I was drawing one of these by hand just a couple of days back for an Internet Standard Draft, so was very interested to evaluate this tool. Unfortunately it treats edits as chunks of characters instead of structured diagrams... fail. I'd really prefer a tool like this using a graphviz-like data structure and the ability to rearrange the elements in a similar way to MySQL Workbench and other database design tools.

52 points by lest 15y ago

I hate to do this, but "Emacs had it first" Cf. http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html

tcarnell 15y ago

I love it!

bootz15 15y ago

I'm in love.

wenbert 15y ago

This is the missing link. I am very visual and want to explain problems with charts. Pastebin the code + ASCIIFlow will make my life easier. Bookmarking and retweeting. Create an App (Mac OS) for this and this will be one of the most useful productivity apps for developers.

jebberjeb 15y ago

Why didn't I think of that!:)

mikerg87 15y ago

Would pay real $$$ to have this as an add on to Visual Studio. It doesnt seem like we will get embeddable pictures or diagrams for source code so I might as well embrace source crafted from only the finest ASCII... Technically, this is most impressive...

seewhat 15y ago

Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177

gulbrandr 15y ago

I hate to do this, but it has already been posted 6 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177

gamebit07 15y ago

go to emacs M-x picture-mode and you do the same. go to emacs M-x artist-mode and you get the same.

Toenex 15y ago

This also http://www.jave.de/ http://www.jave.de/

rpearl 15y ago

vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 emacs (linked in a different comment): http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html

Cieplak 15y ago

What is the best way to approach this obfuscated code: http://www.asciiflow.com/asciiflow/asciiflow.nocache.js http://www.asciiflow.com/asciiflow/asciiflow.nocache.js I feel like there are better deobfuscation tactics than those mentioned here: http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html

avstraliitski 15y ago

Actually I was drawing one of these by hand just a couple of days back for an Internet Standard Draft, so was very interested to evaluate this tool. Unfortunately it treats edits as chunks of characters instead of structured diagrams... fail. I'd really prefer a tool like this using a graphviz-like data structure and the ability to rearrange the elements in a similar way to MySQL Workbench and other database design tools.