Show HN: ASCII Tree Editor

(asciitree.reorx.com)

18 points | by novoreorx 6 hours ago ago

6 comments

  • chrismorgan 2 hours ago ago

    I’m sure lots of people will think this, so I’ll say it—

    Box-drawing characters (U+2500–U+257F) are not ASCII (U+0000–U+007F).

    There, got it out of my system. :-)

    (I know, “ASCII art” colloquially means more than just the ASCII range.)

    • Timwi 42 minutes ago ago

      Indeed! I was disinclined to even look at this project because it said ASCII when the box-drawing characters are obviously a lot more suitable. It should say “text-only” or “plain-text” or similar instead.

  • adi_hn07 an hour ago ago

    Seems like a cool project !! Can you implement auto-parse as soon as the tree is pasted? Right now we can use arrow keys to reorder files, would love drag and drop ability for that too.

    Would love to have ASCII Tree Editor on https://www.superlaun.ch

  • Timwi 41 minutes ago ago

    Both your link, and the “Live Demo” link in the GitHub readme, are dead links.

  • ycombiredd 3 hours ago ago

    You might find this a useful companion to your tool.

    https://github.com/scottvr/retree

    • novoreorx 3 hours ago ago

      That's pretty neat! My motivation is to manipulate tree structures to provide them to LLM. Retree does the opposite, taking tree text as input to create a real file system hierarchy. Next time I want to create a new project based on the tree I edited through ASCII Tree Editor, I can use retree to do this.