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unix_surrealism

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Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

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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 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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 3 weeks ago

besides you .. as you type it ..

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does this mean the GNU makes an appearance soon?

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Cherubim from Ezekiel's vision.

[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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