Hey just FYI: This is now possible with :exp FILENAME.ansi which dumps the corresponding ANSI escape sequences to a file

This is great! I will go ahead and write a similar export function for vixl44.

Wow, cool project! If you want to collaborate on vixl44 for the feature to export something terminal-printable, feel free to do so

Thanks! Beautifying scripts is a usecase that didn't come to my mind so far. Awesome idea, I don't know why I didn't think about it! So far it is only possible to write your image to a file (which is just some json) or to export to svg, but it shouldn't be much trouble to get something which can be printed to terminal!

Thanks for your comment! Yanking is one of the features I want to implement next! Something I already missed when drawing the first pictures or so!

Cool idea to use %/* (or similar) to rotate/flip stuff! I only thought about replacing a certain color with another using %s/

Also if you every played "adom" using "w<motion.hjkl>" could "word-ish" to the next color in that direction. I don't know how much you're still messing with it, but it's a fun problem to think about... transferring useful Vi motions and commands into a new problem domain.

Wow, I never of this being practical in vim. That's an awesome idea! Although I'm not sure it would be 'high res' enough to work for inline code documentation.. If that is what you meant?

Also I love the idea of semantic movement, I'll definitely put it on my feature-list!

Yes, for example if we can do tables with color-background text, it would save columns to draw the column boarders. :)

Even if we go with monochrome charts, it will be super useful for describing data structures and visualizing algorithms.

Also, looking forward to the semantic movement implementation!

Actually, I've been looking for something forever that will do block diagrams in a sane way in vim. If you could get that to work I would literally organize a parade in your honor.