Joystiq on Terminal emacs games

Our brothers-in-arms at Joystiq have a cute video up of the 'hidden' Terminal games you can play. These games are part of the GNU emacs text editor, which is bundled on virtually every Unix-like OS and can be had for pretty much any OS out there.

Granted, they aren't pretty or fast, but they might be worth a few minutes while stuck at the Denver airport... again...

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/28/hidden-games-in-mac-os-x/

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Our brothers-in-arms at Joystiq have a cute video up of the 'hidden' Terminal games you can play. These games are part of the GNU emacs...

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The joystiq article and even the Emacs documentation don't list all the fun stuff you can do in Emacs.

So here's one that's not on the "fun stuff" Emacs documentation page. When I write "M-x", that means press Esc and then x (or Alt-x sometimes will work depending on your terminal setup).

M-x yow gives you a random Zippy quote. M-x doctor is the old Eliza "AI" program. (These two are in the docs.) M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead feeds the Zippy quotes as input into doctor, and it is an absolute riot. After starting it, press Ctrl-G to stop it chatting and then read the transcript.

December 28 2006 at 5:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply