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revelation on Oct 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Markdeep

The "have ASCII diagrams converted to images" thing is getting ridiculous. No, I don't want to type a border around my diagram. Text is completely and utterly unsuitable for this, I don't want to have every change require me to reformat everything.

(And frankly, the diff thing is nonsense, too. Diff produces an unreadable mess on ASCII art. I'd rather see the diff of some XML that shows me nodes added, removed, properties changed.)

wtbob on Oct 17, 2015 [–]

> Text is completely and utterly unsuitable for this, I don't want to have every change require me to reformat everything.

You need a better editor, that's all. Emacs has picture-mode and artist-mode; no doubt vim has something too, although a quick search didn't help.

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