Re:ASCIIFlow
by behnamoh on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:35AM
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Are there no-mouse alternatives? I hate drawing lines and boxes using mouse and I wish there was a way to write the "structure" and have it generate the ASCII art for that.
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It was on HN recently, the open source text-to-digram tool d2 just launch an ascii output mode: https://d2lang.com/blog/ascii/
This is really close to what I wanted, thanks!
Re:ASCIIFlow
by nonethewiser on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:38AM
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>I wish there was a way to write the "structure" and have it generate the ASCII art for that.
How would what it generates be any different than what you wrote?
Re:ASCIIFlow
by inanutshellus on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:46AM
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He doesn't want to click and drag with his mouse. Instead he wants an input box that lets him say "make a box [30] columns wide and [4] rows tall".
Yes, exactly! Either in natural language or some DSL.
Re:ASCIIFlow
by PhilipRoman on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:56AM
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graph-easy? It doesn't give you a lot of control though
Mermaid is great for this, though the output will be an image, not ASCII.