Dear HN,<p>Do you know of any 2d drawing tools that are keyboard oriented, i.e. modal like vim?<p>I'm looking for something to draw software diagrams in: component, class and some use case diagrams, but I'm getting more and more frustrated by the current solutions (used Enterprise Architect)<p>I guess that's the problem with using vim: You want the same efficiency in other programs...
Given the use case, PlantUML. Can be used in many editors and IDE's. It is much better than the website might suggest.<p><a href="http://plantuml.com/running" rel="nofollow">http://plantuml.com/running</a><p>[edit] AutoCAD can be run interactively from the command line. More like say Bash than Vim...and since it is extensible with Lisp, more like Emacs than Vim as well. There once was a Cad program, Generic Cad, that used two letter combinations for commands somewhat like Vim. AutoDesk bought it and killed it in the early 1990's. At the time, it was the second most popular PC Cad package behind AutoCad.
You could write dot files and have graphviz generate the diagrams for you.<p><a href="http://www.graphviz.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.graphviz.org/</a>
Ronin is probably a good fit: "The application is a cross-over between Vim and Photoshop, where every change to the canvas is inputed as a command."<p><a href="http://wiki.xxiivv.com/ronin" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.xxiivv.com/ronin</a>