This would be more accurately titled “Emacs Major Mode for Web Service for creating Sequence Diagrams”, since all it does is be a client for www.websequencediagrams.com and is completely dependent on that Software-as-a-Service.
Basically I wanted to have something I could share with my colleagues and which could be accepted as "documentation" if checked into source-control. For that using a dialect of diagram-generators which nobody else can get working isn't going to cut it. Those solutions are hardly "out of the box"-friendly, and even less so portable.
This package relies 100% on websequencediagrams.com, and for that it is restricted by whatever the website supports.
But because of that it's also 100% portable and should work out of the box on any machine, without any other prerequisites. And I think that is quite nice.
I just thought it was useful and wanted to share. If my needs are aligned differently than yours I'm not going to take offence :)
I think there's a tendency here to nitpick everything that's submitted. Personally I'm just glad that you had an itch, scratched it, and then shared it with others. This looks like something I could use right now actually! And from this discussion I learned about PlantUML too. So seriously, thanks a lot and don't pay too much attention to the critics.
It's hard to promise anything up front, but if you register an issue on the github issue-tracker I can at least consider it.
I may like the idea and take on the challenge or I may decide that for me it doesn't seem worth it. But I do also accept pull requests :)
Indeed, that was disappointing for me. People on the look out for a similar tool might want to check graphviz and its emacs mode.
http://users.skynet.be/ppareit/projects/graphviz-dot-mode/gr...
or
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d... if you're into org-mode.
If it isn't, the syntax is similar enough that this emacs mode is probably useful for PlantUML as well.
Cool service either way. Thanks for it.
I personally didn't know able plantuml, but I'm pretty sure you're correct about this one. Out of interest: Do you know if plantuml-syntax has a preferred extension?