Luke T. Shumaker

For how much time I spend making Unicode-art diagrams, I really should have figured out a better process than "copy/paste from the table on the 'Box-drawing characters' Wikipedia page".

#Unicode #Emacs #Wikipedia #UnicodeArt #AsciiArt

Oct 22, 2025 at 4:48amWeb
Show threadRobert Pluim 🇪🇺Oct 22, 2025
@lukeshu Install the "boxes" command and the "boxes" package from MELPA?
Show threadLuke T. ShumakerOct 22, 2025

@rpluim The rectangles are the easy part; the lines between them are much more time-consuming.

And sometimes there aren't rectangles at all!

Show threadRobert Pluim 🇪🇺Oct 23, 2025
@lukeshu Sounds like you could do with defining your own input method
Show threadchristaOct 24, 2025
@lukeshu
That looks so cool, its like art
@rpluim