Making ASCII Art in Vim
evakhoury
21 points
2 comments
July 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
vitiral
Awesome! I added your blog to the docs for an ascii art color syntax I wrote for my vim-like editor, I'd love if you checked it out https://civboot.github.io/lua/asciigame.html Note: right now the editor crashes if you mis-type any of the syntax... it's not really fully launched, going to fix that soon hopefully but you can see a [screenshot]( https://civboot.github.io/img/asciigame.png ) of what it looks like Also, if you know any other good references for getting into asciiart I'd love to reference them as well. Note: the Ele editor isn't _quite_ ready for all the asciiart features in your blog post, notably virtualedit and macros are not implemented yet - but I just added basic visual mode so it's getting close!
newsomix9xl
I know that AI will never replace me until it can generate ASCII art. So far it seems to struggle so I sleep well at night.