Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool (asciiflow.com)

I hate to do this, but "Emacs had it first"

Cf. http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html

I love it!

I'm in love.

This is the missing link.

I am very visual and want to explain problems with charts. Pastebin the code + ASCIIFlow will make my life easier.

Bookmarking and retweeting.

Create an App (Mac OS) for this and this will be one of the most useful productivity apps for developers.

Why didn't I think of that!:)

Would pay real $$$ to have this as an add on to Visual Studio. It doesnt seem like we will get embeddable pictures or diagrams for source code so I might as well embrace source crafted from only the finest ASCII...

Technically, this is most impressive...

Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177

I hate to do this, but it has already been posted 6 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177

go to emacs M-x picture-mode and you do the same. go to emacs M-x artist-mode and you get the same.

This also http://www.jave.de/

vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 emacs (linked in a different comment): http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html

What is the best way to approach this obfuscated code:

http://www.asciiflow.com/asciiflow/asciiflow.nocache.js

I feel like there are better deobfuscation tactics than those mentioned here:

http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html

Actually I was drawing one of these by hand just a couple of days back for an Internet Standard Draft, so was very interested to evaluate this tool. Unfortunately it treats edits as chunks of characters instead of structured diagrams... fail. I'd really prefer a tool like this using a graphviz-like data structure and the ability to rearrange the elements in a similar way to MySQL Workbench and other database design tools.