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inetknght on Feb 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equ...

> Does anyone go, hey, you know what would make my note-taking or web design faster and easier? Spending 20 minutes making an ascii art diagram instead of slapping the same three figures out in powerpoint in 20 seconds.

Yes, I do. I spend my time in a terminal all day and ASCII art is way more useful than an image reference which will never be able to load.

Show me a tool to export that powerpoint to ASCII and I'll be happy.

freddie_mercury on Feb 18, 2020 [–]

There's no reason images can't be displayed in terminals other "that's not how terminals work" historical baggage.

iTerm2, as one example, can display images just fine.

inetknght on Feb 18, 2020 | [–]

If I wanted images in my text I would use Code.

Images are fine as long as they don't fuck with line counts or column counts.

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