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105 lines
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# Plain text with lines
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[](https://0dependencies.dev)
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An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.
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Designed above all to be easy to understand.
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http://akkartik.name/lines.html
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## Getting started
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Install [LÖVE](https://love2d.org). It's just a 5MB download, open-source and
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extremely well-behaved.
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To run from the terminal, [pass this directory to LÖVE](https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Running_Games),
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optionally with a file path to edit.
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Alternatively, turn it into a .love file you can double-click on:
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```
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$ zip -r /tmp/lines2.love *.lua
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```
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By default, lines2.love reads/writes the file `lines.txt` in
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[a directory relative to this app](https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.getSourceBaseDirectory).
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To open a different file, drop it on the lines2.love window.
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## Keyboard shortcuts
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While editing text:
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* `ctrl+f` to find patterns within a file
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* `ctrl+c` to copy, `ctrl+x` to cut, `ctrl+v` to paste
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* `ctrl+z` to undo, `ctrl+y` to redo
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* `ctrl+=` to zoom in, `ctrl+-` to zoom out, `ctrl+0` to reset zoom
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* `alt+right`/`alt+left` to jump to the next/previous word, respectively
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* mouse drag or `shift` + movement to select text, `ctrl+a` to select all
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For shortcuts while editing drawings, consult the online help. Either:
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* hover on a drawing and hit `ctrl+h`, or
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* click on a drawing to start a stroke and then press and hold `h` to see your
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options at any point during a stroke.
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lines2.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If
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you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you
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found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact
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## 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
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can violate this invariant by editing the file outside lines2.love. Don't do
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that.
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* If you make the first line a drawing there's currently no way to insert
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lines above it.
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* Help screen may show up in multiple drawings at a time. That feels a bit
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klunky.
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* Clicking on a drawing to focus cursor on it adds a point. Orphaned points
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disappears on reload, but still. Klunky. To avoid this you can move the
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cursor using the keyboard, but who can remember that?
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* No clipping yet for drawings. In particular, circles/squares/rectangles and
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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
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mouse press and release need to happen in separate frames. Try pressing and
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releasing more slowly and let me know if that helps or not. This is klunky,
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sorry.
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* Touchpads can drag the mouse pointer using a light touch or a heavy click.
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On Linux, drags using the light touch get interrupted when a key is pressed.
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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.
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## Mirrors
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This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), aiming
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to be more elegant and have fewer bugs. Updates to it can be downloaded from:
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* https://git.merveilles.town/akkartik/lines2.love
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* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2.love
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## Associated tools
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines2md exports files to Markdown and
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(non-editable) SVG.
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* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2html.love exports files to html and inline
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SVG.
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* https://codeberg.org/eril/lines2html.love provides the option to export
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just the drawings to a directory. Also provides a CLI, which should be more
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natural for many people.
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## Feedback
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[Most appreciated.](http://akkartik.name/contact) Messages, PRs, patches,
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forks, it's all good.
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