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0a10297a | 1 | ;;; bruce.el --- bruce phrase utility for overloading the Communications -*- no-byte-compile: t -*- |
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2 | ;;; Decency Act snoops, if any. |
3 | ||
acaf905b | 4 | ;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1993, 1997, 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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5 | |
6 | ;; Maintainer: FSF | |
7 | ;; Keywords: games | |
8 | ;; Created: Jan 1997 | |
2a1e2476 | 9 | ;; Obsolete-since: 24.3 |
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10 | |
11 | ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
12 | ||
b1fc2b50 | 13 | ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
f83d2997 | 14 | ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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15 | ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
16 | ;; (at your option) any later version. | |
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17 | |
18 | ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
19 | ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
20 | ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
21 | ;; GNU General Public License for more details. | |
22 | ||
23 | ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
b1fc2b50 | 24 | ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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25 | |
26 | ;;; Commentary: | |
27 | ||
28 | ;; This program was written to protest the miss-named "Communications | |
29 | ;; Decency Act of 1996. This Act bans "indecent speech", whatever that is, | |
846dc4ba | 30 | ;; from the Internet. For more on the CDA, see Richard Stallman's essay on |
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31 | ;; censorship, included in the etc directory of emacs distributions 19.34 |
32 | ;; and up. See also http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html. | |
33 | ||
34 | ;; For many years, emacs has included a program called Spook. This program | |
35 | ;; adds a series of "keywords" to email just before it goes out. On the | |
36 | ;; theory that the NSA monitors people's email, the keywords would be | |
37 | ;; picked up by the NSA's snoop computers, causing them to waste time | |
38 | ;; reading your meeting schedule notices or other email boring to everyone | |
39 | ;; but you and (you hope) the recipient. See below (I left in the original | |
40 | ;; writeup when I made this conversion), or the emacs documentation at | |
41 | ;; ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-manual*. | |
42 | ||
43 | ;; Bruce is a direct copy of spook, with the word "spook" replaced with | |
44 | ;; the word "bruce". Thanks to "esr", whoever he, she or it may be, this | |
45 | ;; conversion was an extremely easy piece of editing, suitable for a first | |
46 | ;; essay at elisp programming. | |
47 | ||
48 | ;; You may think of the name as having been derived from a certain Monty | |
49 | ;; Python routine. Or from Lenny Bruce, who opposed censorship in his own | |
50 | ;; inimitable way. Bruce does exactly what Spook does: it throws keywords | |
51 | ;; into your email messages or other documents. | |
52 | ||
53 | ;; However, in order to comply with the CDA as interpreted by Richard | |
54 | ;; Stallman (see the essay on censorship), bruce is distributed without a | |
55 | ;; data file from which to select words at random. Sorry about that. I | |
56 | ;; believe the average user will be able to come up with a few words on | |
57 | ;; his or her own. If that is a problem, feel free to ask any American | |
846dc4ba | 58 | ;; teenager, preferably one who attends a government school. Failing |
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59 | ;; that, you might write to Mr. Clinton or Ms Reno or their successors and |
60 | ;; ask them for suggestions. Think of it as a public spirited act: the | |
61 | ;; time they spend answering you is time not spent persecuting someone | |
62 | ;; else. However, do ask them to respond by snail mail, where their | |
63 | ;; suggestions would be legal. | |
64 | ||
65 | ;; To build the data file, just start a file called bruce.lines in the etc | |
66 | ;; directory of your emacs distribution. Note that each phrase or word has | |
67 | ;; to be followed by an ascii 0, control-@. See the file spook.lines in | |
68 | ;; the etc directory for an example. In emacs, use c-q c-@ to insert the | |
69 | ;; ascii 0s. | |
70 | ||
71 | ;; Once you have edited up a data file, you have to tell emacs how to find | |
846dc4ba | 72 | ;; the program bruce. Add the following two lines to your .emacs file. Be |
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73 | ;; sure to uncomment the second line. |
74 | ||
75 | ;; for bruce mode | |
76 | ;; (autoload 'bruce "bruce" "Use the Bruce program to protest the CDA" t) | |
77 | ||
78 | ;; Shut down emacs and fire it up again. Then "M-x bruce" should put some | |
79 | ;; shocking words in the current buffer. | |
80 | ||
81 | ||
82 | ;; Please note that I am not suggesting that you actually use this program | |
83 | ;; to add "illegal" words to your email, or any other purpose. First, you | |
84 | ;; don't really need a program to do it, and second, it would be illegal | |
85 | ;; for me to suggest or advise that you actually break the law. This | |
86 | ;; program was written as a demonstration only, and as an act of political | |
87 | ;; protest and free expression protected by the First Amendment, or | |
88 | ;; whatever is left of it. | |
89 | ||
90 | ||
91 | ;; We now return to the original writeup for spook: | |
92 | ||
93 | ;; Steve Strassmann <straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu> didn't write the | |
94 | ;; program spook, from which this was adapted, and even if he did, he | |
95 | ;; really didn't mean for you to use it in an anarchistic way. | |
96 | ;; | |
97 | ;; To use this: | |
98 | ;; Just before sending mail, do M-x spook. | |
99 | ;; A number of phrases will be inserted into your buffer, to help | |
100 | ;; give your message that extra bit of attractiveness for automated | |
101 | ;; keyword scanners. Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler! | |
102 | ||
103 | ;;; Code: | |
104 | ||
105 | (require 'cookie1) | |
106 | ||
107 | ; Variables | |
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108 | (defgroup bruce nil |
109 | "Insert phrases selected at random from a file into a buffer." | |
110 | :prefix "bruce-" | |
111 | :group 'games) | |
112 | ||
113 | (defcustom bruce-phrases-file "~/bruce.lines" | |
c5e87d10 | 114 | "Keep your favorite phrases here." |
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115 | :type 'file |
116 | :group 'bruce) | |
117 | ||
118 | (defcustom bruce-phrase-default-count 15 | |
119 | "Default number of phrases to insert." | |
120 | :type 'integer | |
121 | :group 'bruce) | |
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122 | |
123 | ;;;###autoload | |
124 | (defun bruce () | |
125 | "Adds that special touch of class to your outgoing mail." | |
126 | (interactive) | |
127 | (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) | |
128 | (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) | |
129 | (cookie-insert bruce-phrases-file | |
130 | bruce-phrase-default-count | |
131 | "Checking authorization..." | |
132 | "Checking authorization...Approved")) | |
133 | ||
134 | ;;;###autoload | |
135 | (defun snarf-bruces () | |
136 | "Return a vector containing the lines from `bruce-phrases-file'." | |
137 | (or (file-exists-p bruce-phrases-file) | |
138 | (error "You need to create %s" bruce-phrases-file)) | |
139 | (cookie-snarf bruce-phrases-file | |
140 | "Checking authorization..." | |
141 | "Checking authorization...Approved")) | |
142 | ||
143 | ;; Note: the implementation that used to take up most of this file has been | |
144 | ;; cleaned up, generalized, gratuitously broken by esr, and now resides in | |
145 | ;; cookie1.el. | |
146 | ||
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147 | (provide 'bruce) |
148 | ||
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