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	Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:43:44 +0100

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	-Simple tool to draw ascii box plots from the terminal.
	-No need to use 1 million line of javascript code on a browser.
	+gramscii -- interactive tool for ASCII box-and-arrows charts
	+============================================================
	+
	+```gramscii``` (pronounced "grrr'a(m)sky", more or less like "ASCII" but
	+with a leading "grrr") is a simple CLI tool to create and edit
	+box-and-arrows charts using ASCII characters.
	+
	+```gramscii``` is interactive and its commands are quite intuitive to
	+anybody who does not need a mouse to be productive. You can move around
	+the screen with the usual ```hjkl``` keys, but you will travel at
	+ligthning speed by placing another finger on ```SHIFT```. You start
	+drawing a box with ```b```, and you place an arrow with ```a```. For
	+more information, just read the manpage.
	+
	+```gramscii``` aims at remaining small, avoiding bloat, and being
	+portable. It is written in ASCII C90, it requires only an ANSI
	+VT100-compatible terminal (real or virtual), and it does not use any
	+external library (nope, not even ncurses!). Hence, you should be able to
	+compile and run ```gramscii``` on any operating system with a C90 libc
	+and a VT100 terminal emulator.
	+
	+WHY?
	+====
	+
	+As most of the software out there, ```gramscii``` comes out of
	+frustration and pain.
	+
	+I have been producing box-and-arrow diagrams in ASCII for quite a while.
	+I know that there exist ad-hoc plugins for ```vim(1)``` and
	+```emacs(1)```, but I was not happy with any of them, to say the least.
	+
	+At the same time, there has been a recent proliferation of browser-based
	+point-and-click tools to draw ASCII charts. Like, are you serious? Why
	+on Earth should people accept to load 1 million LOCs of obscure
	+javascript code on a hyper-bloated web browser and use a fancy
	+point-and-click interface to produce......guess what......ASCII charts
	+that are best-viewed viewed on a VT100 terminal?
	+
	+We must say no to madness. We must repudiate bloat. We must reject
	+useless featurism. Software must be reasonable, simple, small, and
	+functional.
	+
	+But wait...
	+============
	+
	+If you have noticed that the name ```gramscii``` is too much reminiscent
	+of Antonio Gramsci, the phylosopher and politician who was among the
	+founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1921, who strongly believed
	+that every single human is an intellectual, a philosopher, and an
	+artist, and who maintained that societal changes are only possible when
	+a class exerts intellectual and moral leadership over its
	+contemporaries, well then just get rid of all your shiny iPointless
	+things and come back to reality.