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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by avar on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:29AM (#25656402)
Have you tried asking your local psychotherapist?

    M-x doctor RET

    I am the psychotherapist.  Please, describe your problems.  Each time
    you are finished talking, type RET twice.

    Why does Emacs need Symbolic Integration?

    What do you think?

    I don't know, just answer the question!

    Why do you say you do not know just answer the question?

    [...]
Maybe you'll have better luck than I did with mine.
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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by sillysaurusx on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:37AM (#25656439)
Oh my gosh, someone please add an M-x gpt-doctor. Hmm.. I wonder how we'd build the training dataset...

How many other meme modes exist? I dug up the earliest commits I could find, and apparently one of the earliest hooks was "protect-innocence-hook": https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1327459335245422597

If the buffer's filename is "sex.6", it asks whether the user is over 18. If so, it renames the buffer to "celibacy.1".

Apparently it was in the file lisp/play/meese.el. Emacs archaeology is more fun than it should be.

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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by fjcp on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:35AM (#25657569)
>How many other meme modes exist?

Here is the manual section listing all the "Games and Amusements" that ship with Emacs by default:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Am...

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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:46AM (#25656489)
There's M-x zone, a bunch of games - anything from Tetris and Bubbles to Zork, morse code handling (M-x morse-region, unmorse-region), inserting interesting phrases for NSA spooks... There's a lot.

There's also nyan-mode, made by yours truly, but unfortunately it does not ship with Emacs by default :).

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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by sillysaurusx on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @06:06AM (#25656611)
Who do we have to lobby to get nyan-mode into emacs mainline? Happy to send a recommendation email.

Was surprised how high quality the repo is, too!

https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode

It even has an accompanying blog post, which I found informative. http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2011-08-25-introducing-nyan-mod...

And even a Show HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906632

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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:59AM (#25657308)
Thank you for your kind words. I wouldn't call it high-quality, though. I wrote this back when I barely knew how to wield Lisp or use Emacs. I've gained much more experience in both since then; I keep promising myself that one of these days, I'll clean it up and make it a stellar little mode...

As for getting it into mainline, I'd be OK with going through the FSF copyright paperwork, but I worry this will probably fail over the uncertain status of Nyan Cat image/music IP...

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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by boogies on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:24PM (#25661178)
> I worry this will probably fail over the uncertain status of Nyan Cat image/music IP...

That’s how MooGNU was born: https://archive.org/details/M00GNU

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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by MaDeuce on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:02PM (#25660347)
One of my favorites is "Zippy the pinhead" quotes (M-x yow). I believe this has been removed due to copyright issues, but it is still available if you look. Zippy's quotes could be sent to the doctor via M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead.
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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by sn41 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:54AM (#25657719)
I think the Emacs doctor drilled down my insecurities down to a bad exam in school. (S)he ? claimed that his/her secretary will send me the bill, but I haven't been back so they must have forgotten.
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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:15AM (#25657906)
If you feel that the services rendered were useful to you, consider sending a donation to FSF :).
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Re:Emacs Symbolic Integration by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:37AM (#25656438)
Can't wait for someone to do a M-x doctor over GPT-3, AiDungeon style.
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