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varkor | 5 years ago | on: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

This is correct: I like having full control over the application behaviour (at least down to the browser), and for a relatively small implementation like this, it's quite manageable. I make no claim this is sensible, but I've been bitten by obscure bugs in large libraries before and this way I find debugging is much easier, because I typically only have to worry about my own code.

I'm not sure I would recommend this strategy to others. It very much comes down to a personal preference, and I imagine using an existing framework would be much more accessible to someone starting frontend development. I feel I might get some stick if I were to suggest this to newcomers :) I'm afraid I don't know of any existing write-ups!

varkor | 5 years ago | on: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

There's currently no direct textual input: I have considered it, but I feel it would be less efficient than the diagrammatic approach. Let me note that there is full keyboard support, which can be faster than drawing the diagrams by hand: you can see the keyboard shortcuts from the "Shortcuts" toolbar button.

varkor | 5 years ago | on: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

You can move vertices by clicking and dragging in the empty space around them. I appreciate this isn't immediately intuitive and I'm trying to come up with a better way to reveal this to the user.

I also agree that fixing the view to the vertices with B can be confusing. My plan is to change this.

Thanks for your comments!

varkor | 5 years ago | on: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

I think you should already be able to draw most of the causal diagrams from that paper already: you can use `\circ` for the white circles and `\bullet` for the black ones. Perhaps the only missing feature is being able to draw double-ended arrows? That's on my to-do list; let me know if there's something else that's missing.

varkor | 5 years ago | on: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

I've been considering it. If you'd find a desktop app useful, please do open an issue on GitHub: that way I can gauge the demand a little better, which will help me to prioritise what to work on next!

varkor | 5 years ago | on: Quiver: A modern commutative diagram editor

Thanks! I use a Makefile simply because someone else contributed it early on in the development and it did the job, so I didn't see a reason to replace it. If there's a better way, I'd be happy to receive a pull request to change it!
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