At it’s core, what is required is:
- ability to insert images with ease
- ability to take excalidraw drawings and import them into a directory with ease
- ability to create new excalidraw drawings with ease
These things COULD be implemented by helix, and it would be real nice, but that’s not something I need.
I can implement all of these myself I think.
have a look at this project: https://github.com/hsingko/emacs-obsidian-excalidraw
this guy uses the obsidian excalidraw plugin, and it’s auto export feature, to do the actual creation of the file and just inserts a link to the png or svg that it spits out into the document.
this is nice, but does rely on obsidian, which I do not love.
what I think I can do is make binds to:
- xdg-open excalidraw.com
- download image from excalidraw.com when I am done and move it to the directory of
my current helix session.
- this can be done very simply, just by ctrl + s to get the .excalidraw file, and then using https://github.com/Timmmm/excalidraw_export to export to svg, would automate doing this. would likely just each time a new .excalidraw file is created on my system in the downloads folder, run excalidraw export on it, then move the image to the right directory.
- grabbing the directory of the current helix session via pwd, or via % register ( “%p shows the absolute filepath of current file ), and maybe using pipe-to to escape it from helix?
- moving file from downloads to helix session folder, naming it {helix file name} drawing.svg
- moving .excalidraw file and doing same thing.
- copy absolute path of that image to my clipboard
disadvantages to this:
- hacky, inherently unstable.