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Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com> 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! 


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