Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/emacs/lisp/yow.el, revision 1.1.1.1

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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