Cowsay in Emacs

This is a workalike of the popular cowsay amusement program that runs directly in Emacs and does not require any external programs.

This port is not written by the original author of cowsay, but can load cartoon characters from the same files as the original and you can add custom cows (see link to repo with a lot of .cow files)!

Commands

Here Commands, before run use cowsay-load-cows for load cows, this is required, if you hasn't cows, then clone anything repo with cows, and add source's path to cowsay-directories: (example), this is required:

• cowsay-string read string from minibuffer and in new buffer see cowsay result with user's string
• cowsay-region read region, and with this region view cowsay result in new buffer
• cowsay-replace-region read region and replace its with cowsay result

Customization

Here all variables, which you can change:

• cowsay-directories is list of directories in which put .cow files, defaults to "/usr/local/share/cows" and "/usr/share/cowsay/cows"
• cowsay-preferred-cows is list of names of cows, yea cows has names
• cowsay-eyes is 2-character string to use as the cow's eyes. Example of customization:

  (setq cowsay-eyes "..")

• cowsay-tongueis 2-character string to use as the cow's tongue Example of customization:

  (setq cowsay-eyes "|]")