Re: gui ascii art

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <20030321180529.D7671236E@thangorodrim.hactrn.net>, Rob Austein writ
es:
>turns out that we have a gui tool for drawing ascii art: gnu emacs21
>"artist-mode", which is a mouse-driven package on top of picture-mode.
>
>randy and i found this via a cycle we've gone through before: somebody
>on iab or iesg says "wish i had a tool for...", we fail to find it, so
>we design it, then google for what we just designed, and discover that
>somebody already wrote it and we have it on our laptops.
>
This may be the straw that finally makes me learn emacs...  (I have 
some nice 'pic' macros, but those don't do much good when writing RFCs. 
And I think that Jon Bentley once wrote a troff -- not nroff -- 
preprocessor for the task.)


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)