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From: Veronica Karlsson <dream@on.spammer>
Subject: Re: Time for a new FAQ?
Date: 1997/11/03
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Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art


Phosphor wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
> |Spunk1111 wrote:
> |>
> |[ 8< ]
> |>   I have one comment though... I have to object that
> |> the overtype mode is better.  I like to keep the characters
> |> there and manually move them around until the picture
> |> looks right.  I'd rather insert spaces and move a character
> |> than to type over it.  Am I the only one using this method-
> |> or is everyone else using the overtype?
> |
> |I _can_ set emacs to use a kind of overtype-like mode but I prefer the
> |"normal" mode...  :)
> 
> Yuck... How can you stand that? I use a program that is designed for doing
> ansi's and ascii's, which works really well in the overwrite mode because
> it allows for highlighting and moving, copying, etc, of rectangular
> sections of text and stuff like that.  Insert mode is very annoying!
> 

Andreas taught me how to do that with emacs...  =)

AND I can use the same program, with the same special little "tricks",
for writing html source code, programming source code, even play some
games... (I have heard that you can also use emacs to surf and read news
etc but lets not get too extreme now... I am also very irritated about
the way it sometimes tries to be smart and changes stuff for me, like
when one day it suddenly "tabified" an ascii art file for me without my
telling it to do that...)

I say, choose one tool and learn how to use it. A good artist can
achieve the most amazing results with really simple tools. A bad artist
might be helped by special programs to create something that looks
"cool" without really knowing what he did, but he will not be able to
achieve anything really amazingly good until he makes the effort to
learn how to do things thoroughly.

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