Questions tagged [artist-mode]
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artist-mode copy a square?
When using artist-mode I often find I want to create several equally sized boxes for a diagram.
Is there an easy way I can copy an existing shape on my page and drag it out to a new place?
Or a way to make consistently sized rectangles instead of…
Philip Kirkbride
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Use colors with artist-mode
Is there a good robust method to draw with colors in artist-mode or a similar mode? By this I mean setting the foreground and background faces to colors such as red, green, blue, etc. for individual "pixels" (characters) when drawing with the mouse…
ebpa
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When to use artist-mode, and when to use picture-mode
Why does emacs offer two drawing modes?
artist mode
picture mode
Are they competing packages or have different use cases.
What I tried: googled "emacs artist-mode versus picture-mode"
My setup: emacsclient -nw in Terminal.app
UPDATE: Found the…
american-ninja-warrior
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How do I finish a line in artist-mode without a mouse?
I'm using a lot of artist-mode at the moment but I find cancelling the current op very fiddly. Apparently when drawing a polyline you can use mouse-3 but this isn't very helpful when you just have keys. What's the correct way to finish the current…
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Asciitosvg drawings with artistmode?
As a team, we use asciitosvg in our documentation wiki to generate beautiful diagrams :
https://github.com/dhobsd/asciitosvg
I'd like to draw those using artistmode, but the shapes are slightly different. For instance, rectangle squares are '#', and…
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insert picture without replacing the word in artist mode
I want to add rectangle outside the text as follows:
+---------+
|why there|
+---------+
But what I get is
+--------+
|hy there|
+--------+
I use C-c C-a r at the beginning of line which just above the character "w"
yuxuan
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Draw a rectangle in artist-mode that gets past the last line
Artist-mode on an empty buffer. C-c C-a C-o rectangle , to start drawing a rectangle. You can go right and left, but you can't go down. On a non empty buffer, you can actually go up or down, but not past the last line of the buffer, at…
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How to auto resize rectangle in artist-mode while writing in it?
I use the artist-mode more than i can count, and mostly use the rectangle form, especially when writing (my own mindmap/concept map workflow that i come to like) but i always have to fix the part myself when writing inside of it.
Any ways to make…
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