created by

Charles Campbell

script type

utility

description

DrawIt is a plugin which allows one to draw lines left, right, up, down, and along both slants. Optionally one may \"cap\" the lines with arrowheads.  One may change the horizontal, vertical, slant, and crossing characters to whichever characters one wishes. Its easy to start and stop DrawIt: use \di to start DrawIt and \ds to stop DrawIt. Its also available as "DrawIt" from http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#VimFuncs. When DrawIt has been started you may use the number pad to leave a trail of dashes, vertical bars, etc.  The lines will be expanded as needed to accomodate your drawing.  DrawIt can also draw boxes and ellipses on a blank-filled area (DrawIt can produce these) which can be useful for drawing boxes around comments. Viart's <drawing.vim> has been merged with the original DrawIt (vimscript#11).  Use visual-block selection to specify a starting and ending positions and a Bresenham line drawing algorithm will be used to connect the two.  DrC has written an ellipse-drawing Bresenham-style procedure: again, use the visual block selection to specify a box to contain the ellipse and \e to trigger the ellipse drawing. DrawIt incorporates an "erase" mode, toggled by the <space> key, that will leave a trail of blanks behind and under the cursor as it is moved by the number pad.  Using the shift-arrow keys, DrawIt will move the cursor, expanding lines and inserting spaces as needed, without changing underlying text. DrawIt contains both the plugin source and help.  You'll need to gunzip the file and untar (tar -oxvf DrawIt.tar), preferably in the <.vim> or <vimfiles> directory. DrawIt records many user options that affect DrawIt and all maps that starting DrawIt creates.  When DrawIt is terminated it restores the user's maps and options.  DrawIt's number pad maps will expand the file as necessary to accomodate the drawing, automatically. Thank you for ranking DrawIt!

install details

Put a copy of <DrawIt.tar.gz> in your <.vim> (unix) or <vimfiles> (windos) directory. gunzip DrawIt.tar.gz tar -oxvf DrawIt.tar will create <plugin/DrawIt.vim> and <doc/DrawIt.txt>.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
DrawIt.tar.gz	08272002	27-Aug-2002	6.0	Charles Campbell	The latest DrawIt, an ascii drawing tool for Vim, now supports: \> \< \^ \v : fat arrowheads s-up, s-down, etc: move w/o changing text, inserting/expanding lines as needed.
DrawIt.tar.gz	9/19/2001	21-Sep-2001	6.0	Charles Campbell	DrC's DrawIt.vim and Syvain VIART's drawing.vim have been merged into one plugin: \di \ds to start/stop, keypad controlled drawing, visual block specified lines, arrows, boxes, and ellipses.  Drawing with spaces now continues in the same direction that the keypad last specified.
DrawIt.tar.gz	072301	24-Jul-2001	6.0	Charles Campbell	Initial upload