created by

Richard Bentley-Green

script type

utility

description

INTRODUCTION DrawX makes ASCII-art drawing relatively easy. You can draw boxes and lines, and there is support for easily including special characters in your drawings. As well as supporting standard ASCII characters, it also supports a number of different line-drawing styles courtesy of the wider Unicode character set There are two (actually quite separate) drawing functions provided;- 1/ Box drawing - This allows quick drawing of arbitrary-sized boxes, filled with blank space 2/ Tracing - This allows you to move the cursor around and trace a path as you go. Support is provided for joining lines etc NOTE: This may well work for vim versions prior to 7 - I haven't tried it though Here is a (rather uninspiring) example. I know it doesn't display very well because it needs a fixed-width font, but it's better than nothing and should give you an idea...     ┌────────────┐       ╔════════════╗     │Here's a Box     │       ║Here's a Box     ║     └─────┬──────┘       ╚═════╤══════╝                  │                                  │                  ╰────────┬───────╯                                     │                    ╭╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┴╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╮                    ╎And another Box     ╎                    ╰╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╯                  ┏━━━━━┓                 ■┃◍   ◍┃■                  ┃ ═══ ┃                  ┗━━╦━━┛              ┌──┳━━━╩━━━┳──┐              │ ┌┨ ┏┅┅┅┓ ┠┐ │              │ │┃ ┗┅┅┅┛ ┃│ │              │ │┃ DrawX ┃│ │              │ │┃       ┃│ │              └─┘┃       ┃└─┘                 ┗┳━┳━┳━┳┛                  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃                  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃                  ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃                  ┗━┛ ┗━┛

install details

Just un-tar into ~/.vim/bundle/ as usual and read the README file for config options

Click on the package to download.

package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
drawx.tar.gz	03/01/20	2021-01-04	7.0	Richard Bentley-Green	- Added 'erase' mode toggle - Added new mappings to allow moving cursor without tracing (but staying in trace mode)
drawx.tar.gz	30/12/20	2020-12-31	7.0	Richard Bentley-Green	- Documented 'cursor keys' and 'exit trace' mappings - Added ability to change 'exit trace' and `exit menu` keys (both default to `<esc>`) to avoid conflicts with cursor keys
drawx.tar.gz	20/11/20	2020-11-21	7.0	Richard Bentley-Green	Initial upload

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