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Questions tagged [picture-mode]

Picture mode is a major mode to edit ASCII art pictures

Picture mode is a major mode to edit ASCII art pictures. In Picture mode, the cursor transparently moves beyond the right margin and the last line of the file; if characters are inserted in these positions, spaces and newlines are automatically added to reach the right position.

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Example of drawing rectangle in picture-mode

I have been going through the manual of picture-mode and have been wondering if it's possible to draw a rectangle and connect it with another rectangle or something like that?
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Centering within comment blocks or ASCII art

I have C comments like this: /****************************************************************************** * Includes * …
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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…
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Moving left in picture-mode splits line with spaces

When moving to the left in picture-mode for some reason the line is split with 7 spaces. Enter picture mode M-x picture-mode Set movement to the left C-c < Then start drawing a line ------------------------------------- The result ------ …
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