Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/emacs/lisp/yow.el, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: ;; Copyright (C) 1985 Free Software Foundation
        !             2: ;; Author Richard Mlynarik.
        !             3: 
        !             4: ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
        !             5: 
        !             6: ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        !             7: ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.  No author or distributor
        !             8: ;; accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it
        !             9: ;; or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all,
        !            10: ;; unless he says so in writing.  Refer to the GNU Emacs General Public
        !            11: ;; License for full details.
        !            12: 
        !            13: ;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
        !            14: ;; GNU Emacs, but only under the conditions described in the
        !            15: ;; GNU Emacs General Public License.   A copy of this license is
        !            16: ;; supposed to have been given to you along with GNU Emacs so you
        !            17: ;; can know your rights and responsibilities.  It should be in a
        !            18: ;; file named COPYING.  Among other things, the copyright notice
        !            19: ;; and this notice must be preserved on all copies.
        !            20: 
        !            21: ; Randomize the seed in the random number generator.
        !            22: (random t)
        !            23: 
        !            24: ; Important pinheaddery for GNU Emacs.
        !            25: ; Expects file emacs/etc/yow.lines to be in ITS-style LINS format
        !            26: ;  (ie strings terminated by ascii 0 characters.  Leading whitespace ignored)
        !            27: ; Everything up to the first \000 is a comment.
        !            28: (defun yow (&optional n interactive)
        !            29:   "Return or display a Zippy quotation"
        !            30:   (interactive
        !            31:     (if current-prefix-arg
        !            32:        (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg) t)
        !            33:       (list nil t)))
        !            34:   (if (null yow-vector)
        !            35:       (setq yow-vector (snarf-yows)))
        !            36:   (let ((yow (aref yow-vector
        !            37:                   (if n
        !            38:                       n
        !            39:                     (% (logand 0777777 (random)) (length yow-vector))))))
        !            40:     (cond ((not interactive)
        !            41:           yow)
        !            42:          ((not (string-match "\n" yow))
        !            43:           (delete-windows-on (get-buffer-create "*Help*"))
        !            44:           (message yow))
        !            45:          (t
        !            46:           (message "Yow!")
        !            47:           (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
        !            48:             (princ yow))))))
        !            49: 
        !            50: (defvar yow-vector nil "Pertinent pinhead statements")
        !            51: (defun snarf-yows ()
        !            52:   (message "Am I CONSING yet?...")
        !            53:   (save-excursion
        !            54:     (let ((buf (generate-new-buffer " yow"))
        !            55:          (result '()))
        !            56:       (set-buffer buf)
        !            57:       (insert-file-contents (expand-file-name "yow.lines" exec-directory))
        !            58:       (goto-char (scan-buffer (point-min) 1 000))
        !            59:       (while (not (eobp))
        !            60:        (or (setq end (scan-buffer (point) 1 000))
        !            61:            (error "Invalid yow.lines file"))
        !            62:        (if (if (looking-at "[^ \t\n\r\f]")
        !            63:                (progn (forward-char 1) t)
        !            64:              (re-search-forward "[^ \t\n\r\f]" end t))
        !            65:            (setq result (cons (buffer-substring (1- (point)) (1- end))
        !            66:                               result)))
        !            67:        (goto-char end))
        !            68:       (kill-buffer buf)
        !            69:       (message "I have SEEN the CONSING!!" (length result))
        !            70:       (apply 'vector (nreverse result)))))
        !            71: 
        !            72: ; Yowza!! Feed zippy quotes to the doctor. Watch results.
        !            73: ; fun, fun, fun. Entertainment for hours...
        !            74: ;
        !            75: ; written by Kayvan Aghaiepour
        !            76: 
        !            77: (defun psychoanalyze-pinhead ()
        !            78:   "Zippy goes to the analyst."
        !            79:   (interactive)
        !            80:   (doctor)                             ; start the psychotherapy
        !            81:   (if (null yow-vector)
        !            82:       (setq yow-vector (snarf-yows)))
        !            83:   (switch-to-buffer "*doctor*")
        !            84:   (sit-for 0)
        !            85:   (while t
        !            86:     (insert-string (yow))
        !            87:     (sit-for 0)
        !            88:     (doctor-ret-or-read 1)
        !            89:     (doctor-ret-or-read 1)))
        !            90: 

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