Comments on: How To Create ASCII Drawings in Vim Editor (Draw Boxes, Lines, Ellipses, Arrows Inside Text File)

By: Ajit

Ajit — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:13:03 +0000

Ged,
That helped me get started.I was able to get into the drawit mode and try few stuff but I think I will definitely need some time to get a hang of it .Thanks for the comment though.

Ajit

By: ged

ged — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:00:06 +0000

Hi, Ajit.

There is some issue with plugin and sometimes you need to type in \di twice to start drawing. You should type in \di in command mode (if you are in another mode like input or visual you should press Esc key to enter command one). After \di executes you’ll see “[DrawIt]” at the bottom of screen. Now you could type \b (draw rectangle) or another command to draw appropriate figure. After typing \b use arrow keys to draw. To stop drawing type in \ds and you’ll see [DrawIt Off] that indicates you leave drawing mode.

Hope it helps you.

By: Ajit

Ajit — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:04:03 +0000

I could install the plugin but I am finding it difficult to start the plugin.Where do I have to run the command \di.Can you please tell me ramesh.

Thanks,Ajit

By: Jagdish Chhailkar

Jagdish Chhailkar — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:43:04 +0000

I am trying to install DrawIt.vba i.e. drawing tool in vim. I am unable to install it. I am using RHEL 4. In root login i have the file called DrawIt.vba available. I am doing as follows:
# vim DrawIt.vba –> it opens the file in vim
If i issue :so % then i am getting error in line 2 as follows :
Error detected while processing /root/DrawIt.vba:
line 2:
E492: Not an editor command: UseVimball
Hit ENTER or type command to continue
can you please guide how to install this?

Jagdish Chhailkar

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:53:00 +0000

@Ged, bosha, rakesh,

I’m glad you liked this article. Thanks for your nice comments.

@Berry,

Yes. You can use those keys (pagedown, end, pageup, home) from the notebook keyboard also.

@Tim,

\s is filling up the space as expected.

Steps:
———
Select specific lines in visual mode,
press \s which will append spaces.

You are right. \f is not working as expected in the visual mode. I’m not sure whether this is a bug in the plugin (or) something else. I’ll do some research on this topic later.

By: rakesh uv

rakesh uv — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:10:59 +0000

GOOD one !!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:08:11 +0000

With the visual commands, I couldn’t get the \f and \s didn’t work as I expected.

In Vim, is there a way to search all open buffers or a directory and then create a window with a clickable jump list of the results (file and context)?

By: Berry

Berry — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:58:30 +0000

In Feature 5, I think the keys in the number pad match the direction very well. But If I use Notebook, which have no numpad, can I use other keys instead?

By: bosha

bosha — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:42:48 +0000

Thanks man. It’s really useful.

By: ged

ged — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:02:38 +0000

Thats cool and can be useful when you want to show someone your idea through diagram but there are no MS Visio, Krita or Dia installed on machine and vim is. Thanks a lot, it is quite easy to learn and use.