Neat. The quick and dirty way I use if I want to make something big and unmissable is to invoke figlet inside vim: ":r!figlet vim"
Ha! Never looked into :r, but I certainly will now
Making ASCII Art in Vim
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Re: Making ASCII Art in Vim
#12Another slew of utility lies in `:help searchoffset`, often like the following: https://til.codeinthehole.com/posts/about-vims-semicolon-sea... /x/e-3 /x/+1 /x/;/yz ...it allows near arbitrary cursor placement (eg: this blog articles "squiggle" situation) to be able to find the beginning of the squiggle, or the end of the squiggle (or temporarily using "X" and "Z" for start/end, and "clearing" it with `V...:s/[XY]/./…
For the last example given in that article:
/test_.*_errors/;/errors
/test_.*_\zserrors
Re: Making ASCII Art in Vim
#13Neat. The quick and dirty way I use if I want to make something big and unmissable is to invoke figlet inside vim: ":r!figlet vim"
Glad I'm not the only one who does this.
Re: Making ASCII Art in Vim
#14Another slew of utility lies in `:help searchoffset`, often like the following: https://til.codeinthehole.com/posts/about-vims-semicolon-sea... /x/e-3 /x/+1 /x/;/yz ...it allows near arbitrary cursor placement (eg: this blog articles "squiggle" situation) to be able to find the beginning of the squiggle, or the end of the squiggle (or temporarily using "X" and "Z" for start/end, and "clearing" it with `V...:s/[XY]/./…
For the last example given in that article: /test_.*_errors/;/errors I find it much easier to use "\zs". That tells vim where you want the "start" of the match to be. Everything before the "\zs" is just treated like context: /test_.*_\zserrors It is also useful for ":s/match/sub"
Noice! :-D Never knew about that (even though it might be vim-specific), but yeah, so much easier than where I'll usually have to do some trial + error to get my cursor to land where I want it. (usually in a macro, or multi-`.` edit context).
Re: Making ASCII Art in Vim
#15> When asked, "do you need any special programs or software to make ASCII Art?", the great ASCII artist Joan G. Stark said: "All you need is a text editor with a fixed-width font."
You can find her impressive ASCII art archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20091028031724/http://www.geocit...
Re: Making ASCII Art in Vim
#16You can use artist mode in Emacs as an equivalent. It's really great for box plots and diagrams.
Re: Making ASCII Art in Vim
#17True terminal art connoisseurs are still using their registered copies of TheDraw from 1991: