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 Sacha: Do you know about Artist mode?

Carsten: I have tried it. It's extremely cool. I actually started writing extensions to artist mode to make it a bit… See, I have these ideas when I sit in the colloquium in our institute as a guy is discussing something. I'm taking notes. Then I would like to make… He has a beautiful image. I just would like to make a drawing with a few lines.

I've tried to use Artist mode for this but I couldn't get it fast enough so that it would actually be feasible to do this.

Sacha: Yes. It actually surprisingly works well with a tablet PC.I have a screen that swivels around and becomes a tablet. So when you're drawing on the screen, that actually draws in Artist mode]]Artist mode as well.

Carsten: Oh, so maybe I should throw away my iPad and get an Android. What are you using then?

Sacha: No, no. I have a tablet PC. So it's a Lenovo X220. It's a proper computer and I can run Emacs on it. It's heavy.

Carsten: That's like as if you would sort of take your mouse in order to draw in Artist mode and just follow these lines?

Sacha: But you're drawing on the screen, so it is more convenient. I came across that because I was giving a talk on Emacs to the local Linux users group. Naturally, we got derailed by people joking about, “Oh, can you do this?” It was like, “Yes, there's a mode for that. Let's give it a try.”

Carsten: There's always a mode for this.

Sacha: And I was surprised it worked.

Carsten: Yes. That is great. Even xkcd has realized that Emacs has it for everything. I think one or two xkcd jokes are about Emacs, I remember.

Sacha: Yes. There was the butterfly one which actually made its way into Emacs as a command. Then there was the one that you'd linked to recently, with the workflow.