Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic (yhetil.org)

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  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....

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 [1]: 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 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.