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Re: Ask HN: Know any keyboard oriented drawing tools?

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Post by melle »

twobyfour wrote: post #8

Logo? Don't know what packages are available to run it on modern OSes, but LogoWriter was a great intro to programming in 3rd grade...

Logo - though nice - is too limited for my needs.

If anyone wants to use logo, you can 'import turtle' in Python and start right away ;)

See https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/turtle.html

Re: Ask HN: Know any keyboard oriented drawing tools?

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Post by melle »

brudgers wrote: post #6
melle wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm looking for something that is more interactive though. Ideally it should be like a love child of MS visio / LibreOffice Draw and vim ;)

Just my two cents: for formal diagrams I find code is often faster than interactivity but feels slower because the output is indirect and so it doesn't quite feel like I am doing as much.

For me this is the case as well if I know what I'm drawing. If I need to find a way to 'put things on paper', I'd rather have some interactive options, preferably speedy ones ;)
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