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Emacs, artist mode

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Resurfaced independently across 4 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2008–2015
peak thread · 53 comments
134 pts
latest 20+ return · 2015-09-25
118 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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For you vim-lovers out there, DrawIt accomplishes most of the same things: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40

vault_·134-point thread·

How far can we take this? What is literate programming at the extreme? I often draw when I need to work out an algorithm in my head. I wish there were a way to embed my doodles in code comments. Stuff like circle geometry are hard to explain without dense pixels. I've tried using various literate programming pre-processors that let me write comments in Markdown/HTML and embed whatever, but it makes my UNIX-minimalism-sense freak out, and it's super awkward having…

an_ko·118-point thread·

That's pretty awesome.

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
257

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
80

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2008-04-01M-x artist-modemattrepl20
2009-07-30Emacs Screencast: Artist Mode - ASCII Photoshop for Emacsgleb31
2010-08-02Emacs, artist modeFirst breakout · Best threadVeXocide13453
2015-09-25Emacs Artist ModeLatest 20+ point returnbrudgers11826