Sorry if this is a misunderstanding, but do you have whitespace dumped in a file in order to start drawing with boxdraw? If I go into visual mode, I can only "select" areas where there is text within the file.
Ideally I'd like to open a new, blank file and start drawing diagrams immediately.
Maybe a vim macro to help? dump say 20 lines of 72char columns of whitespace?
If you set virtualedit+=all, you only need a few blank lines. So I typically do 20o<Esc> and ]ov and I'm ready to start (the ]ov mapping is provided by Tim Pope's vim-unimpaired plugin).
Sorry if this is a misunderstanding, but do you have whitespace dumped in a file in order to start drawing with boxdraw? If I go into visual mode, I can only "select" areas where there is text within the file.
Ideally I'd like to open a new, blank file and start drawing diagrams immediately. Maybe a vim macro to help? dump say 20 lines of 72char columns of whitespace?