Implement a save() function to provide generic solution for plots about unicodeplots.jl HOT 6 CLOSED

Kindly bumping again. Would love to have simple savefig function in UnicodePlots!

from unicodeplots.jl.

Other than that I am a bit reluctant now to make a special save method since it is probably best to just treat a Plot like one would a string

In my opinion there's value in providing the common interface, such as the savefig method. A lot of the value of Plots.jl is in not having to relearn slightly different interfaces every time, instead having a common reliable interface. Having the "obvious thing" (saving with savefig) would lead a smoother interface, even if all it did underneath was a print.

from unicodeplots.jl.

@tbreloff I'll soon implement a save to txt file method. What would you suggest the method name/signature to be? safefig(myplot, "filename.txt") or would you suggest avoiding name collisions?

from unicodeplots.jl.

Cool! Shouldn't matter to me... I only ever import, so all calls are
prefaced (UnicodePlots.savefig, etc). Feel free to use the same naming as
in Plots.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Christof Stocker [email protected]
wrote:

@tbreloff https://github.com/tbreloff I'll soon implement a save to txt
file method. What would you suggest the method name/signature to be? safefig(myplot,
"filename.txt") or would you suggest avoiding name collisions?

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Alright. Looking at this now it seems I don't obey the subtle intended distinction between show and print, resulting in print writing color decorated text into any stream (even files), which make them unreadable. So that's the first thing to fix.

Other than that I am a bit reluctant now to make a special save method since it is probably best to just treat a Plot like one would a string (i.e. write them to a file the same way). An option to save the fully color decorated string may be useful though. especially if I ever want to create real tests for this package.

from unicodeplots.jl.

Bump.
Perhaps there's an obvious way, without a modification here? If so, I haven't been able to figure it out. When print or show to a file, an IOStream I get:

"�[37m"
and so forth.

I've been copying from the REPL to a text file, which works but gets boring.

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