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(Package creation suggestion) Regex Railroad Diagrams

#1

I’d like to make a suggestion, please:

There’s this Atom package: regex-railroad-diagram (GitHub repo).
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It would be great if someone could port this package (or make a similar one) to Sublime Text.

Thank you


PS. There's already a VSCode extension based/inspired on that Atom package: [Regex Railroad Diagrams](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kogai.regex-railroad-diagrams).
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#2

I think something like this would be doable. Maybe rely on something like plant UML to generate an image and load it up in an output panel via a phantom or even in a popup. These referenced repos seem to be JavaScript specific. I don’t think it would be hard, but it would take some work, especially if you wanted it to support multiple regex engines like Python’s, Perl’s, etc.

It’s a cool idea.

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