From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Get buffer unto a new frame
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 07:41:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZOmQg+GWuL/2psLB@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6omzx88.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 04:24:39PM -0400, tpeplt wrote:
> Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> OK. Thanks. It looks as though Emacs’s built-in ‘artist-mode’ works
> similarly, but when I tried it, it used ASCII characters instead of
> graphic characters.
Perhaps you're searching for `artist-select-line-char' and friends.
> Either way, I was hoping that there was a tool that
> allowed for descriptions of the diagram elements instead of a
> keyboard/mouse WYSIWYG tool. This would allow a user to describe the
> diagram elements and connections and would then generate the diagram.
> It doesn’t appear that anyone has yet written this tool for Emacs. Or,
> if it has been, it has not been adopted by Emacs users on this mailing
> list.
I think this is due to the nature of the problem: compare, e.g. the
Graphviz suite to TiKZ/PGF and you'll see that "drawing an image
declaratively" is so huge a field that you end up with quite different
languages :-)
That said, me, too, have wished from time to time to be able to do
it in elisp.
Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-26 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-18 9:59 Get buffer unto a new frame Heime
2023-08-18 10:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-08-18 13:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2023-08-18 13:12 ` Yuri Khan
2023-08-18 13:41 ` Heime
2023-08-18 13:57 ` PierGianLuca
2023-08-18 14:10 ` Heime
2023-08-18 14:33 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-08-18 14:36 ` PierGianLuca
2023-08-18 16:38 ` Yuri Khan
2023-08-24 16:01 ` tpeplt
2023-08-24 16:13 ` Corwin Brust
2023-08-24 16:20 ` Yuri Khan
2023-08-24 17:23 ` Richard Kerry via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-08-25 20:24 ` tpeplt
2023-08-26 5:41 ` tomas [this message]
2023-08-26 8:28 ` Yuri Khan
2023-08-26 9:22 ` tomas
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