From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Hill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line drawing characters Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:09:14 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2uab8bF270qltU1@uni-berlin.de> <2uae8jF27urf2U1@uni-berlin.de> <2ucvheF29ovgrU1@uni-berlin.de> <87u0ser24i.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099005019 4520 80.91.229.6 (28 Oct 2004 23:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 29 01:10:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CNJPB-00025K-00 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:10:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNJWz-0001iG-Cb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNJWS-0001gd-Aj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNJWR-0001fs-Mo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNJWR-0001ff-EO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.158.54.5] (helo=renfield.synergymicro.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CNJOO-0007Wn-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from synergy.san.synergymicro.com (synergy.san.synergymicro.com [10.1.2.12]) by renfield.synergymicro.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9SNFVmQ020167 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:15:31 -0700 Original-Received: from [10.1.5.75] ([10.1.5.75]) by synergy.san.synergymicro.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9SN7uWx032650 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:07:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87u0ser24i.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: 383185 - 8c8b2c888678 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21559 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21559 At 10:58 PM +0200 10/28/04, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: >Greg Hill writes: > >> I am using emacs (GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit)) >> on a unix system under X. >> >> I would like to create some simple line drawings by mixing >> line-drawing characters along with ordinary text. Surely the One True >> Editor is capable of that, but I haven't been able to glean any useful >> information on how to proceed from the Gnu Emacs Manual (Fifteenth >> Edition), the Gnu Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, or anything I could >> find doing a Goolge search. >> >> Can anyone offer me any tips? > >M-x picture-mode RET >C-c \ hello C-c / word! Thanks, but that is not what I had in mind. I am talking about using special line-drawing characters that are designed for that purpose, and are not part of the normal ASCII set. --Greg