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I do wish I could toggle the background and view the diagram on blank white; having the grid visible makes some things look more obvious than without, and that would be useful to know ahead of time.
I like this. Unfortunately it's not as semantic as I expected: X +----+XX----------+ | XX | | XX | | +XXX------+ | | XXXXX +-------+ XXX If I try to resize a rectangle that's crossed by a free-form curve, it stops being a rectangle. (Now that I think, I could also use this as a feature).
This is explained by a comment from the author (bootywizard) above: Author here - it does but it doesn't, which is why it doesn't always work so well. It never actually keeps track of the shapes in a seperate data model - the text itself is the only data model. When you resize, it retraces out the lines that need editing. I did this as the expected use case is for diagrams in code, where diagrams may be copy pasted i…
There's also my favorite, Asciio https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Asciio It allows saving the object format for later modification or export as pure ascii text, as needed. And it works on all platforms that support Perl (a lot).
There's also Monodraw, ASCII drawing with a native MacOS GUI and more advanced tools. https://monodraw.helftone.com/
As a Linux sysadmin, this is incredible flowchart software and I really enjoy using it. Is there a diagram software for console I could use thats just as easy I wonder? The downside is it has very limited sex appeal for *.managers. Microsoft Visio has turned diagrams into blinding tapestries of overpriced clipart, fancy arrows, and logos. Worst of all, its an enabler for the cardinal sin of diagrams: overlapping line…
Plenty of editors support it, both console (vim/emacs) and GUI-based (VSCode, Sublime).