Originally I planned to blog about a fun hack, porting the infamous cloud-to-butt browser extension to Emacs. The idea was that whenever you interact with subprocesses instances of “cloud” would be replaced with “butt”, I picked shell.el for ease of hacking [1] . The following snippet is loosely modeled after…
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Let me check, just how old is Emacs 10.31? According to the Emacs timeline Emacs 13.0x was the first public release - in 1985. Feel free to study the over 30 years old sources , simply because they’re significantly more readable than what’s making up expand-file-name these days.
This here is the epitome of craziness. I could very well give up my search for more scary things in Emacs because I very much doubt I’ll find anything more fear-inducing, but first of all, let’s explain what’s wrong with it. Unlike my previous examples it’s not something I can show you by just pointing at code…