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Are there no-mouse alternatives? I hate drawing lines and boxes using mouse and I wish there was a way to write the "structure" and have it generate the ASCII a
by behnamoh 1y ago
Are there no-mouse alternatives? I hate drawing lines and boxes using mouse and I wish there was a way to write the "structure" and have it generate the ASCII art for that.
- nonethewiser 1y ago>I wish there was a way to write the "structure" and have it generate the ASCII art for that. How would what it generates be any different than what you wrote?
- inanutshellus 1y agoHe doesn't want to click and drag with his mouse. Instead he wants an input box that lets him say "make a box [30] columns wide and [4] rows tall".
- behnamoh 1y agoYes, exactly! Either in natural language or some DSL.
- Aissen 1y agoIt was on HN recently, the open source text-to-diagram tool d2 just launched an ascii output mode: https://d2lang.com/blog/ascii/ https://d2lang.com/blog/ascii/
- behnamoh 1y agoThis is really close to what I wanted, thanks!
- PhilipRoman 1y agograph-easy? It doesn't give you a lot of control though
- jvinet 1y agoMermaid is great for this, though the output will be an image, not ASCII. https://mermaid.js.org https://mermaid.js.org