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README.md
Plain text with lines
An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. Designed above all to be easy to understand.
http://akkartik.name/lines.html
Getting started
Install LÖVE. It's just a 5MB download, open-source and
extremely well-behaved. I'll assume below that you can invoke it using the
love command, but that might vary depending on your OS.
To run from the terminal, pass this directory to LÖVE, optionally with a file path to edit.
Alternatively, turn it into a .love file you can double-click on:
$ zip -r /tmp/lines2.love *.lua
By default, lines2.love reads/writes the file lines.txt in
a directory relative to this app.
To open a different file, drop it on the lines2.love window.
Keyboard shortcuts
While editing text:
ctrl+fto find patterns within a filectrl+cto copy,ctrl+xto cut,ctrl+vto pastectrl+zto undo,ctrl+yto redoctrl+=to zoom in,ctrl+-to zoom out,ctrl+0to reset zoomalt+right/alt+leftto jump to the next/previous word, respectively- mouse drag or
shift+ movement to select text,ctrl+ato select all
For shortcuts while editing drawings, consult the online help. Either:
- hover on a drawing and hit
ctrl+h, or - click on a drawing to start a stroke and then press and hold
hto see your options at any point during a stroke.
lines2.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact
Known issues
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No support yet for Unicode graphemes spanning multiple codepoints.
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No support yet for right-to-left languages.
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lines2.love assumes a file always contains at least one line of text. You can violate this invariant by editing the file outside lines2.love. Don't do that.
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If you make the first line a drawing there's currently no way to insert lines above it.
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Help screen may show up in multiple drawings at a time. That feels a bit klunky.
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Clicking on a drawing to focus cursor on it adds a point. Orphaned points disappears on reload, but still. Klunky. To avoid this you can move the cursor using the keyboard, but who can remember that?
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No clipping yet for drawings. In particular, circles/squares/rectangles and point labels can overflow a drawing.
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If you ever see a crash when clicking on the mouse, it might be because a mouse press and release need to happen in separate frames. Try pressing and releasing more slowly and let me know if that helps or not. This is klunky, sorry.
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Touchpads can drag the mouse pointer using a light touch or a heavy click. On Linux, drags using the light touch get interrupted when a key is pressed. You'll have to press down to drag.
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Can't scroll while selecting text with mouse.
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No scrollbars yet. That stuff is hard.
Mirrors
This repo is a fork of lines.love, aiming to be more elegant and have fewer bugs. Updates to it can be downloaded from:
Associated tools
- https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines2md exports files to Markdown and (non-editable) SVG.
- https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2html.love exports files to html and inline SVG.
- https://codeberg.org/eril/lines2html.love provides the option to export just the drawings to a directory. Also provides a CLI, which should be more natural for many people.
Feedback
Most appreciated. Messages, PRs, patches, forks, it's all good.