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EmacsLisp
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EmacsLisp
;;; bruce.el --- bruce phrase utility for overloading the Communications
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;;; Decency Act snoops, if any.
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;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1993, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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;; Maintainer: FSF
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;; Keywords: games
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;; Created: Jan 1997
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;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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;; any later version.
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;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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;; GNU General Public License for more details.
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;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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;;; Commentary:
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;; This program was written to protest the miss-named "Communications
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;; Decency Act of 1996. This Act bans "indecent speech", whatever that is,
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;; from the internet. For more on the CDA, see Richard Stallman's essay on
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;; censorship, included in the etc directory of emacs distributions 19.34
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;; and up. See also http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html.
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;; For many years, emacs has included a program called Spook. This program
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;; adds a series of "keywords" to email just before it goes out. On the
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;; theory that the NSA monitors people's email, the keywords would be
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;; picked up by the NSA's snoop computers, causing them to waste time
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;; reading your meeting schedule notices or other email boring to everyone
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;; but you and (you hope) the recipient. See below (I left in the original
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;; writeup when I made this conversion), or the emacs documentation at
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;; ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-manual*.
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;; Bruce is a direct copy of spook, with the word "spook" replaced with
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;; the word "bruce". Thanks to "esr", whoever he, she or it may be, this
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;; conversion was an extremely easy piece of editing, suitable for a first
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;; essay at elisp programming.
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;; You may think of the name as having been derived from a certain Monty
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;; Python routine. Or from Lenny Bruce, who opposed censorship in his own
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;; inimitable way. Bruce does exactly what Spook does: it throws keywords
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;; into your email messages or other documents.
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;; However, in order to comply with the CDA as interpreted by Richard
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;; Stallman (see the essay on censorship), bruce is distributed without a
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;; data file from which to select words at random. Sorry about that. I
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;; believe the average user will be able to come up with a few words on
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;; his or her own. If that is a problem, feel free to ask any American
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;; teenager, preferrably one who attends a government school. Failing
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;; that, you might write to Mr. Clinton or Ms Reno or their successors and
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;; ask them for suggestions. Think of it as a public spirited act: the
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;; time they spend answering you is time not spent persecuting someone
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;; else. However, do ask them to respond by snail mail, where their
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;; suggestions would be legal.
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;; To build the data file, just start a file called bruce.lines in the etc
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;; directory of your emacs distribution. Note that each phrase or word has
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;; to be followed by an ascii 0, control-@. See the file spook.lines in
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;; the etc directory for an example. In emacs, use c-q c-@ to insert the
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;; ascii 0s.
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;; Once you have edited up a data file, you have to tell emacs how to find
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;; the program bruce. Add the follwing two lines to your .emacs file. Be
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;; sure to uncomment the second line.
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;; for bruce mode
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;; (autoload 'bruce "bruce" "Use the Bruce program to protest the CDA" t)
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;; Shut down emacs and fire it up again. Then "M-x bruce" should put some
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;; shocking words in the current buffer.
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;; Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually use this program
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;; to add "illegal" words to your email, or any other purpose. First, you
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;; don't really need a program to do it, and second, it would be illegal
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;; for me to suggest or advise that you actually break the law. This
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;; program was written as a demonstration only, and as an act of political
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;; protest and free expression protected by the First Amendment, or
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;; whatever is left of it.
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;; We now return to the original writeup for spook:
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;; Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu> didn't write the
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;; program spook, from which this was adapted, and even if he did, he
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;; really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way.
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;;
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;; To use this:
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;; Just before sending mail, do M-x spook.
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;; A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help
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;; give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated
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;; keyword scanners. Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler!
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;;; Code:
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(require 'cookie1)
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; Variables
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(defgroup bruce nil
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"Insert phrases selected at random from a file into a buffer."
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:prefix "bruce-"
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:group 'games)
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(defcustom bruce-phrases-file "~/bruce.lines"
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"Keep your favorite phrases here."
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:type 'file
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:group 'bruce)
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(defcustom bruce-phrase-default-count 15
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"Default number of phrases to insert."
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:type 'integer
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:group 'bruce)
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;;;###autoload
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(defun bruce ()
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"Adds that special touch of class to your outgoing mail."
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(interactive)
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(or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file)
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(error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file))
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(cookie-insert bruce-phrases-file
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bruce-phrase-default-count
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"Checking authorization..."
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"Checking authorization...Approved"))
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;;;###autoload
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(defun snarf-bruces ()
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"Return a vector containing the lines from `bruce-phrases-file'."
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(or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file)
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(error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file))
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(cookie-snarf bruce-phrases-file
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"Checking authorization..."
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"Checking authorization...Approved"))
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;; Note: the implementation that used to take up most of this file has been
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;; cleaned up, generalized, gratuitously broken by esr, and now resides in
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;; cookie1.el.
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;;; bruce.el ends here
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