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I wrote a minor GNU Emacs mode for writing surreal texts, that is, stream of consciousness writing.

Ideal surreal writing happens when:

  1. One does not stop oneself from writing the words that come to one's mind.
  2. One does not deletes or replaces the text in part or in whole.

So this mode is designed to stop oneself from breaking rule number 2 - deleting or replacing already written text. It aims to disable movement, deletion, and replacement commands.

It is also incomplete. Anyone who knows how to complete it, please send patches.

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[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 months ago

Thank you for creating a tool to produce more unix_surrealism that is not just cartoons of girls killing crt monitors.

If you're reading this - you too are a unix_surrealist.

[-] gnemmi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

besides you .. as you type it ..

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Does this mean the GNU makes an appearance soon?

[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago

"When I sleep, I dream of angels. Part machine, part human, part daemon, part wildebeest."

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago
[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Cherubim from Ezekiel's vision.

[-] stingpie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You have reinvented the typewriter. Ever since I got one, I've been amassing a horde of surrealist writing.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

no baxceetaoinshrdluetao
no backspace?

[-] kakafarm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Please be a bit more verbose in your questions as I do not understand them.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

i use backspace a lot, since i make typos a lot

[-] kakafarm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Also, patches welcome!

this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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