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color_my_ascii.nvim

Colorful highlighting for ASCII art in Markdown code blocks, with automatic language detection, custom highlights and predefined color schemes — a fenced block full of box-drawing characters is, to every other tool, one undifferentiated grey wall; this one reads it and gives you a small literate-programming toolkit over the same blocks.

status: beta — Beta stage — active development. This repository is past its first shape and in active use, but the surface is not frozen: breaking changes are still possible. Pin a commit or tag if you depend on it.
category: View & render
neovim: 0.10+
repo: github.com/StefanBartl/color_my_ascii.nvim
commits: 154
help: :help color_my_ascii

demo

recorded with VHS from demos/color_my_ascii.tape in a clean Neovim — re-recorded weekly

what is shown when

ascii fences - box drawing, arrows, keywords highlighted on open
:ColorMyAscii schemes switch - matrix
:ColorMyAscii schemes switch - dracula
:ColorMyAscii hover - what paints the glyph under the cursor

install

{
  "StefanBartl/color_my_ascii.nvim",
  opts = {},
}

docs/

git log

2026-09-28 refactor debug: dump inspect/stats output via lib.nvim.output.viewer, not print
2026-09-28 fix notify: stop binding vim.notify at module load, route through lib.nvim.notify
2026-09-25 feat menu: integrations.ui_menu switch + enabled() for ui.nvim's right-click menu
2026-09-24 docs link back to the wkd family site
2026-09-21 fix fence: :Fence open takes back its autocmd records and group when it ends
2026-09-21 ci bump JohnnyMorganz/stylua-action to v5 (Node-20 deprecation)
2026-09-21 ci add job timeouts, failure log artifacts, swap/shada-free nvim runs, pinned deps
2026-09-21 refactor fence/export: split write_and_finish into resolve + write (PRIN-02)
2026-09-20 docs remove bold-as-heading from docs (LUA-54)
2026-09-19 docs changelog: drop dead wkdbook-Lua checklist reference (REL-35)
2026-09-19 fix config: degrade out-of-range/wrong-typed option values, not just keys (ERR-22)
2026-09-19 fix fence/export: stop soft-wrapping the required lib.nvim.fs.write.to_file