M-X Spook (emacs Mail Amusement)
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The post highlights an obscure Emacs feature, 'M-x spook', which generates lorem-ipsum text with a twist, sparking amusement and surprise among commenters.
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arun-mani-jAuthor
5 months ago
1 replyI found this by accident when searching for a command in `M-x`. It is really a nice lorem-ipsum generator but it adds some "subversive" words (as described in the manual), so was quite afraid to use it in public/team projects to avoid "unnecessary attention" :D.
ksherlock
5 months ago
I found compose-email by accident when I accidentally typed C-X M (probably meant to ESC-X msomethingsomething). 95% of my init.el is disabling crap and re-binding keys to #'ignore.
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