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 ** New modes and packages
 
+*** Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines,
+rectangles and ellipses by using your mouse and/or keyboard.  The
+shapes are made up with the ascii characters |, -, / and \.
+
+Features are:
+
+- Intersecting: When a `|' intersects with a `-', a `+' is
+  drawn, like this:   |         \ /
+                    --+--        X 
+                      |         / \
+
+- Rubber-banding: When drawing lines you can interactively see the
+  result while holding the mouse button down and moving the mouse.  If
+  your machine is not fast enough (a 386 is a bit too slow, but a
+  pentium is well enough), you can turn this feature off.  You will
+  then see 1's and 2's which mark the 1st and 2nd endpoint of the line
+  you are drawing.
+
+- Arrows: After having drawn a (straight) line or a (straight)
+  poly-line, you can set arrows on the line-ends by typing < or >.
+
+- Flood-filling: You can fill any area with a certain character by
+  flood-filling.
+
+- Cut copy and paste: You can cut, copy and paste rectangular
+  regions.  Artist also interfaces with the rect package (this can be
+  turned off if it causes you any trouble) so anything you cut in
+  artist can be yanked with C-x r y and vice versa.
+  
+- Drawing with keys: Everything you can do with the mouse, you can
+  also do without the mouse.
+
+- Aspect-ratio: You can set the variable artist-aspect-ratio to
+  reflect the height-width ratio for the font you are using. Squares
+  and circles are then drawn square/round.  Note, that once your
+  ascii-file is shown with font with a different height-width ratio,
+  the squares won't be square and the circles won't be round.
+
+- Drawing operations: The following drawing operations are implemented:
+
+    lines               straight-lines
+    rectangles          squares
+    poly-lines          straight poly-lines
+    ellipses            circles
+    text (see-thru)     text (overwrite)
+    spray-can           setting size for spraying
+    vaporize line       vaporize lines
+    erase characters    erase rectangles
+
+  Straight lines are lines that go horizontally, vertically or
+  diagonally.  Plain lines go in any direction.  The operations in
+  the right column are accessed by holding down the shift key while
+  drawing.
+
+  It is possible to vaporize (erase) entire lines and connected lines
+  (rectangles for example) as long as the lines being vaporized are
+  straight and connected at their endpoints.  Vaporizing is inspired
+  by the drawrect package by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@poboxes.com>.
+
+- Picture mode compatibility: Artist is picture mode compatible (this
+  can be turned off).
+
 +++
 *** The new package Eshell is an operating system command shell
 implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp.  Use `M-x eshell' to invoke it.