[geeks] Am I getting too old or something.....

[Dave McGuire]

On July 16, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > >  A very warped (but probably still tasty) one for those who read their
> > > >email in a proportional font?
> > > 
> > > What kind of deranged pervert reads their mail in a proportional font!?!?
> > 
> >   A lot of people who run Windows, apparently.
> 
> I would be interested in developing an email program that let you read
> your messages in a proportional font, but would smartly make ascii
> drawings appear correctly anyway.  Plus things like underlines.
>                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I don't think it would be that hard to do...

  The underline thing would be easy...VM under emacs can parse
emoticons and replace them with images in the buffer, little smileys
and stuff like that.  Recognizing ascii art would be a whole different
ballgame though, I think.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire                  "Needing a calculator indicates that
St. Petersburg, FL              your .emacs file is incomplete." -Joshua Boyd