Seems like the use-cases are kind of different from the two.
Pikchr seems to be made specifically for A) ease of editing and B) compile to graphs after being embedded in markdown code fences
svgbob I guess would work fine for B, but seems like a hassle to use it for A, but then I've never done ASCII art manually, maybe that's why it seems cumbersome to me?
If you come across this graph and want to edit it, how would you approach it? Because I'm guessing you're not manually moving characters around? Seems like a big hassle if so, even if I'm a daily user of vim which could help a lot.
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Yeah this is the drawback I was talking about. Vim certainly helps a bit, but some kind of editor or plugin which allowed you to more easily move stuff around, draw lines, draw boxes and circles, etc. would be very handy. The current approach is moving characters around by hand, which is quite tedious.
Pikchr seems to be made specifically for A) ease of editing and B) compile to graphs after being embedded in markdown code fences
svgbob I guess would work fine for B, but seems like a hassle to use it for A, but then I've never done ASCII art manually, maybe that's why it seems cumbersome to me?
If you come across this graph and want to edit it, how would you approach it? Because I'm guessing you're not manually moving characters around? Seems like a big hassle if so, even if I'm a daily user of vim which could help a lot.