Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by progfolio » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 9:56 PM UTC

Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic
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Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by 082349872349872 » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 11:58 PM UTC

  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....

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by clircle » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 2:36 AM UTC

cute

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by Twisol » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 2:49 AM UTC

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

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by riffraff » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 6:49 AM UTC

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

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by medstrom » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 6:54 AM UTC

Twisol wrote: post #4

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

Look where?

EDIT: Ah, in the OP.

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by pedrow » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 7:08 AM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #5

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

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

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by matzf » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 7:09 AM UTC

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.

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by Y_Y » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 7:36 AM UTC

Twisol wrote: post #4

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

> 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)

Re: Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic

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Post by Twisol » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC

Y_Y wrote: post #9

Twisol wrote: post #4

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

> 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 s…

Ah, but now you've lost the asterisks in the transfer to HN! This art has been 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!