DrawIt.vim

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║VIM Plugin║--for-->│arrows│──and──>│boxes│
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            │drawing├─┘      and lines!
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Introduction

This is my fork of the fantastic DrawIt vim plugin by DrChip.

Fork changes

removes the <space> mapping in favor of <Leader>x
adds <shift-hjkl> and <shift-yubn> to draw
fixes for known bugs (see :h drawit-history)
updated documentation
based on latest version 15a from DrChip.org

Docs

Use :h drawit to access the full help

Install

Using vim-plug:

  Plug 'normen/DrawIt'

Setup

Mappings

<Leader>di - start DrawIt mode
<Leader>ds - stop DrawIt mode

To change/free the default mapping just map these functions otherwise, the defaults won't be used.

  map <Leader>dr <Plug>DrawItStart
  map <Leader>dx <Plug>DrawItStop

Options

To always start out in utf-single-line mode set

  let g:drawit_mode = 'S'

Statusline

To embed the DrawIt status in a statusline plugin use this function:

  function DrawItMode()
    if !exists("b:dodrawit") | return '' | endif
    return b:dodrawit && b:di_erase ? "ERASE" : b:dodrawit ? "DRAW" : ""
  endfunction

Then e.g. for lightline use:

let g:lightline = { 
  \   'left': [
  \             [ 'mode', 'paste', 'drawit_mode'],
  (....)
  \           ],
  \ 'component_function': {
  \   'drawit_mode': 'DrawItMode',
  \ },
\ }

smemsh/DrawIt