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Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

104 points by progfolio 2y ago

082349872349872 2y ago
Docstrings, errors too, are nice. But haven't the impressive flair Of poems to which Elisp is heir. Elisper's life is paradise! with apologies to GLS: https://prl.khoury.northeastern.edu/img/gls-trees-poem-1979.pdf https://prl.khoury.northeastern.edu/img/gls-trees-poem-1979....
clircle 2y ago
cute
Twisol 2y ago
The best part is a ways down -- I'd quote it here but that would just be karma farming. Look for "With patch applied".
- medstrom 2y ago
  Look where? EDIT: Ah, in the OP.
- Y_Y 2y ago
  > With patch applied, thy scratch prepared to itch which I bemoan, > Help link replied, its ink ensnared, with "lambda, type Unknown."[1] > Apostrophized: "Be tossed, repaired, my user-error thrown!" > With paren pride, I then declared a test which I have shown.[2] > Test now revised as thou compared. Composure hath no throne > when teary-eyed, in fear I blared, "My closure! Type Unknown?" (Karma is meaningless you should have just said it if you want poem_for_your_sprog then go back to reddit)
  - Twisol 2y ago
    Ah, but now you've lost the asterisks in the transfer to HN! This art has been <gasp> defaced! /s Yes, maybe I should have just posted it, but I'd rather people click through and actually read the OP. There's something worth your time on the other side of that link!
riffraff 2y ago
I love that, as a non-emacs user I can't really tell if M-x describe-feelings is a real thing or not.
- pedrow 2y ago
  It isn't, but there is a poetry mode for emacs[0] and a mode for managing Python's poetry (which is a tool for dependency management)[1] [0]: https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html [1]: https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el
- phforms 2y ago
  I actually just checked and it isn’t, but it would not surprise me if it was real, given there are commands such as `M-x butterfly`, `M-x fortune` or `M-x doctor` in Emacs [1]. [1]: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fun-games-in-emacs https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fun-games-in-emacs has a list of fun Emacs commands (mostly games) to try
  - dgacmu 2y ago
    M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is one of my favorites. (Doctor+yow, aka Eliza plus zippy the pinhead quotes)
matzf 2y ago
This reminds me of the similarly poetic output of git describe when no tags are available: $ git describe fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.

104 points by progfolio 2y ago

Docstrings, errors too, are nice. But haven't the impressive flair Of poems to which Elisp is heir. Elisper's life is paradise! with apologies to GLS: https://prl.khoury.northeastern.edu/img/gls-trees-poem-1979.pdf https://prl.khoury.northeastern.edu/img/gls-trees-poem-1979....

clircle 2y ago

cute

Twisol 2y ago

The best part is a ways down -- I'd quote it here but that would just be karma farming. Look for "With patch applied".

medstrom 2y ago
Look where? EDIT: Ah, in the OP.
Y_Y 2y ago
> With patch applied, thy scratch prepared to itch which I bemoan, > Help link replied, its ink ensnared, with "lambda, type Unknown."[1] > Apostrophized: "Be tossed, repaired, my user-error thrown!" > With paren pride, I then declared a test which I have shown.[2] > Test now revised as thou compared. Composure hath no throne > when teary-eyed, in fear I blared, "My closure! Type Unknown?" (Karma is meaningless you should have just said it if you want poem_for_your_sprog then go back to reddit)
- Twisol 2y ago
  Ah, but now you've lost the asterisks in the transfer to HN! This art has been <gasp> defaced! /s Yes, maybe I should have just posted it, but I'd rather people click through and actually read the OP. There's something worth your time on the other side of that link!

riffraff 2y ago

I love that, as a non-emacs user I can't really tell if M-x describe-feelings is a real thing or not.

pedrow 2y ago
It isn't, but there is a poetry mode for emacs[0] and a mode for managing Python's poetry (which is a tool for dependency management)[1] [0]: https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html [1]: https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el
phforms 2y ago
I actually just checked and it isn’t, but it would not surprise me if it was real, given there are commands such as `M-x butterfly`, `M-x fortune` or `M-x doctor` in Emacs [1]. [1]: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fun-games-in-emacs https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fun-games-in-emacs has a list of fun Emacs commands (mostly games) to try
- dgacmu 2y ago
  M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is one of my favorites. (Doctor+yow, aka Eliza plus zippy the pinhead quotes)

matzf 2y ago

This reminds me of the similarly poetic output of git describe when no tags are available: $ git describe fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.