Questions tagged [ascii-art]
Methods and tools for using vim to create and edit diagrams, texts and pictures made entirely by stringing together the printable ASCII characters.
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How to display ASCII art in Neovim startup screen without plugin?
Here's the ASCII art image I want to display in nvim dashboard:
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" ⣴⣶⣤⡤⠦⣤⣀⣤⠆ ⣈⣭⣿⣶⣿⣦⣼⣆ ",
" ⠉⠻⢿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣶⣦⠤⠄⡠⢾⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⠉⠻⣿⣿⡛...
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Advanced plain text tables in Vim
What is the best way to create and edit tables in Vim, with a particular focus on 3 use cases: colspan, rowspan and multiline cells? Below is an example of the kind of table I would like to generate ...
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Can you draw arbitrary graphics in a (neo)vim buffer?
I'm looking for how, if possible, to draw arbitrary graphics in a vim buffer. The reason is that my git graph is too difficult to read:
* | 2021-02-11 [32a37ba] {Tama ...
* | 2021-02-11 [3ee4853] {...
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Creating & maintaining flowcharts in Vim
Here is a simple text-based flowchart I made in Vim for a weblog post:
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Making a box in vim via python
I am attempting to learn more about scripting Vim and writing plugins with python, but I'm having trouble getting started. Although I've read :h python (first step, read the manual), I had trouble ...
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Adding 80-column wide comment header block with centered text
For some reason or another I often divide the code into subsections separated by headers like these:
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How can I easily create and maintain tables?
Here is (part of) a table I use in some documentation:
+---------------+------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| TASK NAME | WHEN | DESCRIPTION ...
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