today's comic

[zilya]

P just showed me today's XKCD. Hey, i know those people...

Comments

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing it out! Much fun:)

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Haven't used emacs in 5 years. I wouldn't be surprised if it can do that.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I just tried it. Control-x Meta-c Meta-butterfly.

Control-x - get "C-x" on bottom of screen.
Meta-c - BEEP! (invalid command noise)
Meta-butterfly - The 'b' causes the cursor to back up on, then you get 'utterfly' where the cursor was sitting.

what do they know??? dang geek wannabes...

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

"M-butterfly" is the command that gets the disk drive to start whistling opera.

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

I never got really good with it, but i could fake it for a while there. Enough to get the humor anyway :)

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

and cross-dressing! that could be a good command. Pity it doesn't work on people.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

The less I say about ed and vi, the better.

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, a subset of humanity knew what their names would do when typed into Teco as a command (ESC-ESC). Alas, mine didn't do anything really interesting...