It is convenient to draw flow chart or architecture of something using vim and just ASCII
Visual block mode and virtual edit are such killer features of vim.<p>I also like plugins like <a href="https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.move" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nvim-mini/mini.move</a>
That allows you to move selected characters around; it's super useful to correct mistakes or reorder things quickly, and it's also very intuitive to make ASCII art with it!
Awesome! I added your blog to the docs for an ascii art color syntax I wrote for my vim-like editor, I'd love if you checked it out<p><a href="https://civboot.github.io/lua/asciigame.html" rel="nofollow">https://civboot.github.io/lua/asciigame.html</a><p>Note: right now the editor crashes if you mis-type any of the syntax... it's not really fully launched, going to fix that soon hopefully but you can see a [screenshot](<a href="https://civboot.github.io/img/asciigame.png" rel="nofollow">https://civboot.github.io/img/asciigame.png</a>) of what it looks like<p>Also, if you know any other good references for getting into asciiart I'd love to reference them as well.<p>Note: the Ele editor isn't _quite_ ready for all the asciiart features in your blog post, notably virtualedit and macros are not implemented yet - but I just added basic visual mode so it's getting close!
I know that AI will never replace me until it can generate ASCII art. So far it seems to struggle so I sleep well at night.
Another slew of utility lies in `:help searchoffset`, often like the following: <a href="https://til.codeinthehole.com/posts/about-vims-semicolon-search-offset/" rel="nofollow">https://til.codeinthehole.com/posts/about-vims-semicolon-sea...</a><p><pre><code> /x/e-3
/x/+1
/x/;/yz
</code></pre>
...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]/./g`