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Built with Rust, it renders... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/github---exlee-ascdraw-keyboard-driven-drawing-editor-for-ascii-utf-8-diagrams-w0mwsbeuq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/W0mwsBEUq.png og:image:alt: GitHub - exlee/ascdraw: Keyboard-driven drawing editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub - exlee/ascdraw: Keyboard-driven drawing editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ascdraw is a keyboard-driven, native diagramming tool for creating ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams on an effectively infinite Unicode canvas. Built with Rust, it renders at 120+ FPS and supports connected lines, shapes, symbols, text, layers, and export to TXT/JSON/PNG. It features vim-style keybindings, a filter mode for piping text through stdin/stdout (usable as an external editor in Neovim, Kakoune, Emacs), TOML-based configuration with live reload, optional 16-color ANSI support, and layer management. Available as a nightly binary or buildable from source via Cargo. Licensed under GPLv3 with optional payment requested. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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