Re: Get buffer unto a new frame

[Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 23:01, tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com> wrote:

> >                       1 ┌───────┐
> >         ┌───────────────┤ Emacs ├────────────────┐
> >         │               └───────┘ 1              │
> >         │ 1..*                                   │ 0..*
> >     ┌───┴───┐      1..* ┌────────┐         1 ┌───┴────┐
> >     │ Frame ├───────────┤ Window ├───────────┤ Buffer │
> >     └───────┘ 1         └────────┘ 0..*      └────────┘
> >
>
> Have you been drawing your helpful diagrams using Emacs’s ability to
> insert individual graphic characters (for example, ┌, ┴, ┤), or is there
> a package that you can recommend that allows for describing the
> diagrams, and then draws them?

I built an Emacs reimplementation of the line drawing workflow I
remember from MS-DOS-based Multi-Edit and DOS Navigator. (You
basically hold down Shift and move point with the arrows, and it draws
over where you move, joining lines as necessary.)

Unfortunately, it’s not currently published, and it has a few known bugs.