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From: eli@alpha.netusa.net (Eli The Bearded)
Subject: Re: Editor for "ASCII-Drawing"?
Date: 1996/10/21
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H�vard Fosseng <havardf@usit.uio.no> wrote:
>schoeppe@mec.fh-muenchen.de (Joerg Schoeppe) writes:
>> Are there some mappings for vi out in the net?  Or something like
>> a "drawing" editor?
>C-h f picture-mode
...
>Emacs.

vi!=emacs.

I haven't done any ascii art in a while. I know some of the vi-clones
support rectangular yank/put's but I don't remember which. There might
be some other things in the clones that would be useful.

I found these mappings handy in regular vi:

	map {^ arrow} ^[klR
	map {v arrow} ^[jlR
	map {< arrow} ^[R
	map {> arrow} ^[llR

These allow the arrow keys to freely move you around in 'R'eplace
mode.

Elijah
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much more likely to write obfuscated programs to generate ascii-art