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Re: boxquote [was: bcm43xx wireless with static ip]



* "Felix C. Stegerman" <flx@obfusk.net> [2007-07-06 17:41]:
> * "Felix C. Stegerman" <flx@obfusk.net> [2007-07-06 11:36]:
> > * William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> [2007-07-06 07:39]:
> > > "Felix C. Stegerman" <flx@obfusk.net> writes:
> > >
> > > > But I was wondering how you made the above "print".  Is there
> > > > some handy utility to pretty-print files like that?  Or did
> > > > you [have to] do it by hand?
> > >
> > > Of course not by hand, ;-)
> > >
> > > The answer: GNU Emacs + boxquote.el
> >
> > To bad I'm a vim user ;-)
> >
> > I guess I'll just whip up a perl script then.  Thanks for the info
> > though.
>
> $ echo '... and so I did ;-)' | boxquote
> ,----[ (standard input) ]
> | ... and so I did ;-)
> `----

And I've even added something:

$ boxquote -c 'fortune -s perl'
,----[ fortune -s perl | ]
| It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.   :-)
|     -- Larry Wall in <199801151836.KAA14656@wall.org>
`----


- Felix

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